CARRIE GOES ‘CRACKERS’
DOMINIC Cummings claimed the Prime Minister was distracted at a key moment during the pandemic by his fiancée going “completely crackers” over a story about their dog.
The Prime Minister’s former chief aide said he warned him on March 12 there were “big problems coming” if self-isolation measures were not announced immediately.
Mr Cummings said he told the PM in a text that the Cabinet Office was “terrifyingly s***” and Britain was facing between 100,000 and 500,000 deaths.
But he said instead of focusing on the virus the Government
was distracted by a Donald Trump request to help bomb Iraq – and Mr Johnson’s fiancée Carrie Symonds’ fury over a “trivial” story in a newspaper about dog Dilyn.
Mr Cummings said: “That day The Times had run a huge story about the Prime Minister and his girlfriend and their dog.
“The Prime Minister’s girlfriend was going completely crackers about this story and demanding that the press office deal with that.
“So we had this sort of completely insane situation in which part of the building was saying are we going to bomb Iraq?
“Part of the building was arguing about whether or not we’re going to do quarantine or not do quarantine, the Prime Minister has his girlfriend going crackers about something completely trivial.”
At the time Carrie, who was pregnant, dismissed the story which alleged their dog would be re-homed once she gave birth as “total c***” on Twitter.
Mr Cummings also accused her of “unethical and clearly illegal behaviour” in trying to box off Downing Street jobs for her friends.