Cummings and Gove are very tight and go back a long way, the end game of Cummings campaign will be a change of PM, however Johnson is a cult figure who goes way beyond Party Politics, a bizarre fusion of ineptitude and bombast which has somehow struck a cord with many rank and file British voters, it actually doesn’t matter what he does as he has seduced them with his little boy lost act and use of verbiage that they don’t understand but interpret as it’s what they want to hear.
It seems the Conservative Party are aware that the genie is out of the bottle and is also out of control, the suits who like to pull the strings are unable to control Johnson and those who know and work with him know the damage and schism he can cause, Cummings intervention is a chaos engine in attempt to destabilise and skirmish with the Johnson camp, the alignment of the big guns over the next few days will indicate the direction this war will take, with Old Etonian’s playing an erstwhile Caligula and Nero, outside the kingdom is burning and those involved too invested in the fight to help quell the flames.