The ugliest wars are always civil wars that pit family against family. To understand the bitterness of the split between Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings, you have to understand that Vote Leave, the campaign they led together, was like a family.
I don’t know a single one of those who helped to deliver the EU referendum result who does not regard the first six months of 2016 as the defining moment of their lives, a combination of comradeship and campaigning like no other. Their primary allegiance was to each other, not the Conservative Party. Cummings was never even a member.
The tragedy for Johnson was that once their joint mission to deliver Brexit was accomplished conflict was quick to develop between his Vote Leave family
