No-one serious about their future in Labour Party politics would dare say that in public about the mercurial former chief adviser to Boris Johnson. But in private, again and again, that sentiment comes from the mouths of this new government's most senior officials.
When they were in opposition, many Labour figures took the view that the Conservatives had hobbled their own government through a needlessly antagonistic relationship with the civil service. Few talk that way now.
The Cummings analysis is where we are in lots of ways. One senior government source said: Dominic Cummings was right about Whitehall.
Sir Keir Starmer's speech... had a secondary aim: galvanising Whitehall, after he accused too many civil servants of being "comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline".
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