How Labour fell in love with Dominic Cummings

How Labour fell in love with Dominic Cummings

In the wake of Labour’s damning loss in the 2021 Hartlepool by-election, as Keir Starmer was consulting his wife on whether he should resign as leader of the opposition, Dominic Cummings exploded. The former No 10 special adviser, who had acrimoniously resigned from Boris Johnson’s government six months earlier, launched a textbook rant against the Labour leader on Twitter. Starmer was a “beta-lawyer-gamma-politician”, Cummings said, who “obsess…