Who has the most to lose from Dominic Cummings’s testimony?

Ahead of Cummings’s long-awaited appearance at a select committee hearing on Wednesday, Sean O’Grady considers who will come out of it unscathed – and who is in the cross hairs of the PM’s ex-aide

Cummings has tweeted that the PM locked down too late (Getty)

Like an FA Cup Final or a WBA title fight, Westminster is greatly looking forward to Dominic Cummings’s appearance at the Health and Social Care Committee. Even though the rest of the country might have heard more than enough from the PM’s former chief adviser, what he says about what various senior figures did – and did not – as the Covid crisis mounted last year will make a difference to careers and reputations. He also happens to be great theatre, as his appearance in the sunny garden of Downing Street one year ago demonstrated, and as his high-profile departure from No 10 in the shadows last year confirmed.

So who might the losers and winners be?

Losers