Alison O’Connor: How damaging will Dominic Cummings' revelations be to British politics?

Dominic Cummings' scatter gun approach left nobody in the British government standing in his appraisal of their handling of the coronavirus pandemic

Dominic Cummings described British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as "a shopping trolley smashing from one side of the aisle to the other”. Photo: Dan Kitwood/PA

Sometimes you do need to look over the hedge to see how the neighbours are doing to get some perspective on how things are going within your own little fiefdom.

As it happens there was the opportunity to do exactly that if you listened to the compelling account given by the former chief adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on how the British Government handled much of the Covid pandemic.