Fergus Finlay: Cummings versus Boris —  a mouthwatering political battle

Have you been following this? If not, get ready for a roller-coaster ride. I’m not sure what subscription you’ll need to be able to follow the twists and turn that lie ahead. But it’s going to be a political thriller. 

Books will be written eventually about the relationship of Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson — with sequels about the hatred that exists between them now.

I used to tell people that when Richard Nixon resigned from office he left a great hole in my life. I was obsessed with every aspect of his Watergate scandal. You ask me, and I would know instantly. There were people with great names — like Donald Segretti, Dwight Chapin, Bebe Rebozo — and long-forgotten incidents, like the Canuck letter.

I was so addicted that the day The Final Days was published, I bought it in hardback and devoured it in one very long sitting. The Final Days was Woodward and Bernstein’s third party account of the end of the Nixon Presidency, and it was utterly gripping from start to finish.