Tory "Mastermind" Dominic Cummings Reportedly Wandering Drunk around Parliament

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Last edited Tue Sep 3, 2019, 09:35 PM - Edit history (1)

From the sounds of it, he's not taking Tuesday's events well ...

From Guardian Political Correspondent Peter Walker:

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Peter Walker ✔
@peterwalker99

I just bumped into Dominic Cummings, who was clutching a glass of red wine and wandering along the parliamentary press corridor, lost and looking for a particular newspaper office. This is not a usual occurrence.

Sunday Times Political Editor Tim Shipman later posted this tweet, then deleted it after Labour sources denied it happened:



But the "Labour sources" apparently didn't inform Labour MP Cat Smith, who witnessed the incident:

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Cat Smith ✔
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As one of several shadow cabinet members stood right next to Jeremy (who was on the phone at the time) I just thought there was some loud bloke who stunk of booze yelling at us.

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UPDATE: The story's now been picked up by the Mirror:

PM's guru Dominic Cummings goads Jeremy Corbyn after Boris Johnson Brexit defeat
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pms-guru-dominic-cummings-goads-19400954

It's not clear how early in the day he started hitting the bottle:

Day of the Remainer purge: how Dominic Cummings ranted at Tory rebels in Downing Street

If the 15 Tory rebels who headed to 10 Downing Street were hoping that Boris Johnson and his team would 'love bomb' them with entreaties not to vote against the Government, they were sorely mistaken.

"I don't know who any of you are!" Mr Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings yelled at a some of them as they waited to meet the Prime Minister outside the Cabinet room.

The former head of the Vote Leave campaign - wearing his trademark crumpled white shirt - continued to hector the smartly dressed MPs in this way for a "considerable period of time".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/03/day-remainer-purge-dominic-cummings-ranted-tory-rebels-downing/

And the spite continues:

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Aubrey Allegretti ✔
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Wow. Sam Gyimah, one of the Tory rebels, tells @SamCoatesSky that "coming in here this evening it looks like they've also disabled our passes, which is a hostile act".

That would be the rebels' parliamentary passes, without which they'll have trouble getting past security.