Dominic Cummings asked Boris Johnson to sign a contract giving him special powers in Downing Street, The Telegraph has learned.
Although employed under the lowly title of "assistant to the Prime Minister", Mr Cummings is understood to have a special agreement, believed to carry Mr Johnson’s signature, spelling out his authority over special advisers (SpAds).
The Daily Telegraph, though it has kicked out or forced out most of its real journalists and replaced them with Polly Fillers, bigots and golf club bores, does seem to have excellent access to confidential government documents. It is a mystery.
A customer enters a Zoom chat.
Laura K: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
(The Prime Minister does not respond.)
Laura K: 'Ello, Miss?
Prime Minister: What do you mean "Miss"?
Britain has been secretly flying tens of thousands of coronavirus tests to America as it struggles to lift the daily testing rate over 100,000 a day in the UK, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
The Department of Health admitted last night that 50,000 test samples were sent to the US last week as problems were reported in laboratories in the UK. The samples were airlifted across the Atlantic in chartered flights from Stansted airport.
