BORIS Johnson has dodged questions about accusations made by Dominic Cummings, saying he is "in favour of people having their views".
The Prime Minister's former aide claimed the Prime Minister’s wife, Carrie Johnson, “pulls the strings” in Downing Street and, in an interview with the BBC last week, said she makes suggestions for who should be hired and fired in Government.
Johnson told LBC: “I don’t wish to comment on any of the sayings of any of my former advisers, who are now many.”
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He added: “Number 10 Downing Street – I looked at this the other day – just in the last year I think we’ve had about 220 people arrive in Number 10.
“I don’t know how many have left – quite a few, and I’m sure they’ve all got something interesting to say, but I have no intention of commenting on it.
“I’m all in favour of people having their views.”
Towards the very end of the interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, Cummings made his views on Johnson clear: "Certainly I think the sooner he goes the better, for sure."
Asked about what he's planning to do about all the issues he outlined in the interview, Cummings said he was "thinking about what could be done" with one possibility being to set up a new party that would "end the existing parties, to kill them off and create something different".
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Another option was to do "a version of what we did" which would be to "take over an existing party and try and bend it to something that is different".
The interview may not have generated an immediate reaction that Cummings was looking for, with many criticising him as much as he did Johnson.
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