Dominic Cummings

Former advisor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings was the intellectual talent behind the Conservative government's attempts to shake things up. After a power struggle and falling out with Johnson's then girlfriend Carrie Symonds he was fired. In May 2021, his testimony to the health and science select committees over the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic gave the government both barrels with accusations that Johnson wanted to let the "bodies pile high" in the pursuit of herd immunity to the virus. Pretty damning but it remains to be seen whether Johnson's popularity will be dented or even destroyed over it.