IF there is anyone in public life so odious and narcissistic as Dominic Cummings, then I have yet to come up with another name. The poison and vitriol he now aims at the Prime Minister and others seems nothing more than petty revenge for losing his job, which frankly he should have lost well before he did. Whatever one’s views of Boris Johnson, he demonstrated a level of loyalty to a special adviser (Spad) rarely seen before. Dominic Cummings was permitted to hold his own personal press conference in the Rose Garden of 10 Downing Street, a privilege not afforded to any other Spad to my recollection. It transpires that Mr Cummings was at best economical with the truth concerning his Barnard Castle trip, as in May he told a committee of MPs that he left London due to security threats against his family and admitted that failing to disclose this at his Downing Street PR exercise was a "terrible misjudgment”.