An Italian daily newspaper said there was ‘one politically untouchable man in London, and it is not the Prime Minister.’
But what are journalists on the continent saying about the PM’s political strategist and director of the Vote Leave campaign group? France’s left-leaning , Libération said: ‘The answer is yes. There really is one rule for Dominic Cummings, prime minister Boris Johnson’s special adviser, and another, quite different rule for the rest of the British public.
The Irish Times said Johnson had ‘not only exonerated Cummings, but praised him’. It added: ‘It was a return to the playbook of his early months in office, when he gloried in the disapproval of his political enemies over his prorogation of parliament and claim he would not fulfil his legal obligation to seek a delay to Brexit.’
The government adviser broke tradition by giving an address to the nation in the Downing Street rose garden yesterday In an article titled ‘Brexit ideologist sparks Johnson’s worst political crisis’, the paper writes: ‘Dominic Cummings was the breath of fresh, irreverent, bright air that was going to help Boris Johnson design a new country after Brexit.
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