The British Prime Minister, held meetings to seek a “secret pact” with his predecessor’s former super advisor and brain of the campaign for , so that it would help him win the next elections.

The Sunday ‘Sunday Times‘ revealed this Sunday that Sunak met twice with Cummings, who in exchange for his help asked for radical reforms in his government, something the Chief Executive refused.

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The paper of Dominic Cummings -first as right hand man Boris Johnson and then, after being fired from Downing Street in November 2020, as its biggest scourge – is one of the most controversial in British politics.

A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking during the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQ) session in the House of Commons, in London, on May 10, 2023. ( Photo by Jessica TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP)

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He is considered the great promoter of the vote to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum and the overwhelming ‘Tory’ victory in the 2019 elections, but at the same time he has been described as a conspirator who tried to govern the United Kingdom from the shadow protected by Johnson.

In addition, he starred in one of the big scandals during the pandemic by violating confinement to take his family to his parents’ house in the north of England.

The Prime Minister’s office has acknowledged that Sunak secretly met him on two occasions, December 2022 and July 2023, but denies that he was offered a position.

“He (Sunak) wanted a secret deal that would get him elected and promised that he would take government seriously after being elected. But I prefer that the Tories lose than that they remain in power without prioritizing what is important and the voters.Cummings told the Sunday Times.

According to the consultant, who regularly attacks Johnson and the Conservative party from his blog, the ‘tories’ prefer to lose than govern seriously.

The then British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on July 6, 2022. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP)

The then British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on July 6, 2022. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP)

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Cummings offered to advise Sunak in exchange for him launching a radical tax cut, solving public health strikes, improving nuclear weapons infrastructure, preparing the country for future pandemics and artificial intelligence and fixing the “broken government institutions”.

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He also wanted him to commit to defending the country’s exit from the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Labor opposition has criticized the revelations and accused Sunak of having stayed “without ideas” and seek to rely on “the ghosts of the tory past”.

“The disconnected Rishi Sunak You are asking the wrong question if you believe that the architect of the breach of lockdown rules, in Boris Johnson’s failed mandate, is the appropriate response.”said the Labor MP Jonathan Ashworth.

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