Boris denies he’s planning to step down to ‘have fun and make money’

Boris Johnson, leaving Number 10 earlier…but only to attend PMQs (Picture: Shutterstock)

Downing Street have dismissed claims Boris Johnson plans to resign after the next election as ‘utter nonsense.’

Dominic Cummings said it was the PM’s intention to quit to ‘make money and have fun’ as he unleashed yet more damning accusations on his blog and Twitter account.

But Number 10 have been quick to rubbish the claim, saying Mr Johnson remains committed to the job.

The Prime Minister’s press secretary said: ‘The PM has actually been asked this before and has said himself it’s utter nonsense, so that still stands.

‘As you know, the PM was elected in 2019 and continues to focus on delivering the manifesto we were elected on and leading the county out of the pandemic.’

Mr Cummings claimed Mr Johnson plans to serve as PM for another five years before stepping down.

Another election is due in 2024 and it is the Tory party leader’s intention to leave office a couple of years after this, Mr Cummings alleged.

He said, because of this, a public inquiry into the supposed failings in the Government’s Covid strategy would not work.

Mr Johnson remains committed to the job, his spokesperson said (Picture: Getty)

‘The public inquiry cannot fix this’, Mr Cummings wrote on his blog.

‘It will not start for years and it is designed to punt the tricky parts until after this PM has gone — unlike other PMs, this one has a clear plan to leave at the latest a couple of years after the next election, he wants to make money and have fun not “go on and on”. So we either live with chronic dysfunction for another ~5 years or some force intervenes.’

He said Tory MPs and cabinet ministers should act to stop what he’s called ‘incompetent leadership’ inside Number 10.

But he predicted they are unlikely to do so while their party remains ahead in the polls.

Dominic Cummings has claimed Mr Johnson does not plan to do another full term after the next election (Picture: PA)

However Mr Cummings anticipated that the operation would ‘start to unravel’ as ‘No10’s structure makes it impossible for anybody to govern properly.’

Things ‘would be unravelling already’, Mr Cummings said, if the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer ‘were not also useless.’

As part of his latest revelations, the Brexiteer has also published private WhatsApp messages in which the PM appears to call his health secretary Matt Hancock ‘f***ing hopeless.’

Mr Cummings, who testified in front of MPs last month, has consistently alleged Mr Hancock lied to colleagues and should have been sacked due to his handling of the pandemic.

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