Cummings slams MPs over alleged drunk flight story

Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to prime minister Boris Johnson, has slated MPs over allegations they got drunk on a flight to an official trip to Gibraltar.

The Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is set to complain to the leaders of the Labour party and the SNP after he said three of their respective MPs were “drinking heavily” en route to an official visit to Gibraltar.

Cummings said via Twitter—not forgetting to include a subtle dig at Westminster journalists— that: “Even by the lobby’s abysmal standards, getting suckered by ‘hammered MPs in wheelchairs’ as a dead cat is poor performance.”

The defence minister claims that Charlotte Nichols, a Labour MP, and the SNP MPs David Linden and Drew Hendry displayed “a lack of respect for the enduring work of our Armed Forces” and risked “undermining respect for Parliament” after drinking heavily on a flight carrying MPs, civil servants and members of the public to Gibraltar on Tuesday.

Mr Linden and Mr Hendry were reportedly “lairy” and “rude”, while it is alleged that Ms Nichols needed a wheelchair to travel from the baggage reclaim to a military minibus.

The two SNP MPs have accused Wallace of a “bizarre Tory smear campaign” over the allegations.