BORIS Johnson has plans to step down as Prime Minister after the next General Election, according to his former chief adviser.

Dominic Cummings made the claim on his personal blog earlier today which claimed the Prime Minister just wants to "make money and have fun not ‘go on and on’".

The post is titled The PM on Hancock: 'totally f****** hopeless', in reference to a WhatsApp message where Johnson appears to describe Health Secretary Matt Hancock as such in regards to the slow rollout of Covid testing in the UK. 

In the post, Cummings writes that "unlike other PMs" Johnson has a "clear plan to leave" the post.

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He added: "... at the latest a couple of years after the next election, he wants to make money and have fun not ‘go on and on’. So we either live with chronic dysfunction for another ~5 years or some force intervenes."

In the lengthy blog post, Cummings details how - he claims - No 10 and Hancock are "seeking to rewrite history" and in the specific paragraph where he says Johnson will quit he talks about how a public inquiry into the handling of the Covid pandemic will not start for years and said it is designed "to punt the tricky parts until after this PM has gone".

Earlier today, Cummings posted a screenshot of what appeared to be a WhatsApp conversation between himself and Johnson talking about Hancock.

Ian Blackford asked Johnson at PMQs whether he had seen the WhatsApp messages.

Cummings posted the screenshot at 11.37am, 23 minutes before Prime Minister's Questions kicked off.

The National:

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In the screenshot, Cummings is seen to be comparing the acceleration of Covid testing in the US to that of Hancock's testing rollout that was stuck and moving sluggishly despite testing being "integral to escape plan".

Johnson then purportedly responded: “Totally f****** hopeless.”

Blackford said: "Mr Speaker as we enter the chamber we see what is reported to be WhatsApp communication between the Prime Minister and Dominic Cummings, perhaps the Prime Minister will clarify whether or not these are genuine and whether the derogatory comments he expressed on his Health Secretary are valid or not."

The National:

The SNP Westminster leader (above) then went onto ask a question about the post-Brexit trade deal and whether the thousands of tonnes of Australian meat will be "free to flood the UK market, tariff-free".

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Johnson failed to acknowledge the first part of Blackford's question, instead saying that the Australia deal is "great" for the UK and Scotland, listing a number of Scottish industries, including farming and whisky.

He instead said that the SNP saw "absolutely no way" in which Scottish farmers could benefit from the deal. He said it was a chance to "turbocharge" Scottish exports around the world without detailing how.

Blackford responded: "My goodness I don't even think the Prime Minister can believe that tripe."