Dominic Cummings - Boris Johnson's right-hand man - has become well known for his unconventional approach in Westminster. Will he be instrumental in Boris Johnson's 'do or die' plan to deliver Brexit?
, he helped pull off a life-changing victory against the odds. But to others, Cummings is a loose cannon who doesn’t much care what get broken in pursuit of his pet ideas; a ‘career psychopath’ as the formeronly half-jokingly put it. One previous colleague joked last week that he’s had so many texts from panicking special advisers – or SpAds – about how to handle Cummings that he should set up shop as a full-time SpAd whisperer.
Where both camps agree, however, is that Dominic Cummings knows how to get things done in a hurry – even if sometimes, it’s best not to ask how. And for a Prime Minister with less than three months to, that’s priceless. ‘He does it by ruthless prioritisation. There are things he’s interested in, which he’ll spend an awful lot of time on, and there are things he will just let go,’ says one source, who worked closely with Cummings during his time as special adviser to then education.
And while Cummings may be impatient, driven, and intensely focused, he isn’t, the source adds, deaf to reason: ‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen him lose his temper, except for comedic effect. And it is possible to win an argument with Dom, he’ll totally listen.’ While he prides himself on challenging the establishment, Dominic Cummings’s CV is conventional. Private school in his native Durham, history degree at Oxford, and marriage to the Spectator deputy editor Mary Wakefield.
It wasn’t a happy pairing. Cummings lasted eight months before quitting in frustration, complaining that the shadow cabinet just weren’t ready to listen to his radical ideas. But he impressed some Tory modernisers, and in 2007, Gove hired him as an adviser. Cummings served through three years of opposition and four of coalition government before quitting amid growing tensions with Number 10, which reportedly saw him as being out of control.
This time it looked as if his political career really was over. Cummings went to ground and began spending his days reading up on everything from Russian novels to genetics and mathematical theory, while writing incredibly long, exasperated blogs about everything he
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