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The diabolical doings of a lying oik
Is Dominic Cummings the unelected dictator who really pulls the strings of Prime Minister Johnson or just a lying oik who can’t see a rule without breaking it? PETER FROST investigates

MR “I had to drive 500 miles in the lockdown to get my eyes tested” Dominic Cummings has defied reason and justice yet again.

This time he has been financially forgiven for building two houses without planning permission and been told he will not have to pay £50,000 or so in backdated council tax.

Cummings’s career has been a remarkable trail of rule-breaking, lying and generally reactionary and ultra-right-wing politics.

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