Esther McVey says Boris Johnson would still be Prime Minister - if he’d have stuck to his guns over not supporting lockdown.
The Tory MP also described the ongoing Covid Inquiry as a character assassination of Mr Johnson as she blasted the conduct of Dominic Cummings.
She told GB News: “I think the Inquiry is about character assassination, mainly on Boris whose instinct was right. He was just too weak to follow it through. He was basically worn down by them (the blob).
“As for Dominic Cummings. I mean, this is the man who thinks so much of himself and so little of everybody else that he could even say that he was checking out his eyesight as he drove to Barnard Castle. I mean, what do you think we're all fools and idiots?
“But you know what really disappoints me? That actually there's very few peopgoing to that inquiry who were anti lockdown. What I don’t want to see in the future is a rerun of the decisions of 2020 which seems to be the case.
"Why don’t they look at the consequences of what we're seeing now to the poor to children? The poverty it has unleashed and the destruction it caused. Boris should have stuck to his instinct. And I do think that if had , he would still be Prime Minister.”
