DOMINIC Cummings has said that he and others from the Vote Leave campaign discussed ousting Boris Johnson as Prime Minister within days of winning the 2019 General Election.

Aided by Cummings, the former head of the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 Brexit referendum, Johnson won a landslide victory for the Conservatives in December 2019, winning 365 total seats and increasing the party's overall majority to 80 seats in the House of Commons.

However, once the team got into Downing Street, it appears the mood changed and the Vote Leave team appeared no longer to be welcome with Boris Johnson's now-wife Carrie (below).

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In an interview, due to be broadcast on BBC 2 this evening, Cummings – who was Johnson’s closest aide before resigning last autumn – said: “Before even mid-January we were having meetings in Number 10 saying it’s clear that Carrie [Johnson] wants rid of all of us.

“At that point we were already saying by the summer either we’ll all have gone from here or we’ll be in the process of trying to get rid of him and get someone else in as Prime Minister.”

He added: “[Johnson] doesn’t have a plan, he doesn’t know how to be Prime Minister and we only got him in there because we had to solve a certain problem not because he was the right person to be running the country.”

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg asked Cummings "what kind of con" he had pulled off on the British public in getting Johnson into Downing Street.

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Cummings said he doesn't think it was a "con" as they were "trying to solve very hard problems in the order that we can solve them in".

Asked if unelected officials who helped to campaign and elect someone as Prime Minister, then discussing getting rid of him days after the vote was okay, Cummings said: "That's politics."

A Downing Street spokesperson said: "Political appointments are entirely made by the Prime Minister."