BORIS Johnson has hired Vote Leave’s controversial boss Dominic Cummings to run No10 and help him deliver Brexit by October 31. In a move that stunned Westminster, the Brexit svengali and deep thin…
Mr Cummings’ hiring completes a Vote Leave takeover of Downing Street.
Other key staff going into No10 who worked on the 2016 campaign to leave the EU include policy advisers James Starkie and Oliver Lewis, director of communications Lee Cain and press secretary Rob Oxley.EUR IN TROUBLETheresa May's last speech as Prime Minister in full on July 24th 2019NEXT IN LINEwarned Boris he risks pushing them “over the edge” if there was a hard Brexit bias to his new team.
Sir Alan said on the Dominic Cummings appointment: “What he needs to appreciate are that the sensitivities and balance of the parliamentary party is very finely balanced and very critical.Mr Cummings was played by Benedict Cumberbatch in The Uncivil War5 Boris Johnson persuaded Mr Cummings to abandon a serious operation in order to come into No10 with himCredit: AP:Associated PressCredit: Alamy Live News
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