Dominic Cummings must be held to account – not made the star of the show | Gaby Hinsliff

In the excitement about what secrets he might reveal, it’s easy to forget the former adviser is not a hapless bystander

The stage is set, the props laid out, the audience whipped into a frenzy of anticipation. He may by his own account have struggled to get the prime minister to listen to him, but Dominic Cummings has half the country hanging on his every word in the run-up to Wednesday’s select committee hearing.

The tantalising dance of the seven veils he performed last week over a mystery Covid document he claims to be holding – should he auction it off for charity, or just plain old vanilla give it to MPs? – and the noisy headlines he keeps generating about a supposed secret herd immunity strategy or the woeful failure to shut Britain’s borders are all ways of ramping up the drama. Pass the popcorn, feel the hype and maybe in the process even learn something about why so very many people died.

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