Gove’s ex-aide calls PM Cameron a ‘sphinx without a riddle’

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Education Secretary Michael Gove’s ex-aide Dominic Cummings has launched a fierce attack on Prime Minister David Cameron by accusing him of “bumbling” and called him a “sphinx without a riddle”.

Mr Gove’s closest ally has told that Mr Cameron lacks the “slightest sense of purpose” and is surrounded by a band of mediocre sycophants.

Mr Cummings, who left his post as Mr Gove’s adviser in January, is known for courting controversies, including blaming Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in May of lying over how plans to introduce free school meals for infants would be funded.

Claiming that Mr Cameron’s senior aides were “far out of their depth” and have “no grip”, Mr Cummings has said: “As Bismarck said about Napoleon III, Cameron is a sphinx without a riddle.

“Everyone is trying to find the secret of David Cameron but he is exactly what he appears to be. There’s no mystery to him. He had a picture of (former Prime Minister Harold) Macmillan on his wall — that’s all you need to know.”

The ex-aide’s comments came just a week after Downing Street have ordered Mr Gove to apologise in the wake of a row with home secretary Theresa May over extremism in schools, adding to the education secretary’s growing list of political clashes. Apart of criticising the prime minister, Mr Cummings has also attacked Number 10 for having prevented the school reforms from progressing “faster, further, better”.

Mr Cummings has told: “To get anything done you have to have priorities and there are no priorities. Everyone is discouraged from telling the truth to important people.”

“There’s no grip. No focus. I thought it was a shame”.

He has also described Mr Cameron’s chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn as a “classic third-rate suck-up-kick-down sycophant presiding over a shambolic court”, accusing him of having tried to stop “pretty much everything” from achieving the goals set by the DfE.

However, a source close to Mr Gove has told about the education secretary having no prior knowledge of the interview while rejecting the claims made in it.

The Department for Education and the Conservative Party have declined to comment on the interview.

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