Ousted pair Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain could return to Downing Street and work on the Conservative’s 2024 election campaign, insiders claim. The Prime Minister is thought to have left the door open for Mr Cain’s return while speaking to the communication chief’s colleagues following his dramatic departure on Friday. The Tory leader is also … Read more
Brexit trade deal ‘must be done this week’: Ministers deny Dominic Cummings’ departure will mean UK concessions as Dublin says agreement is ‘doable’ but talks are STILL deadlocked over EU’s fishing demands By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 09:30 GMT, 15 November 2020 | Updated: 09:34 GMT, 15 November 2020 Ministers today dismissed … Read more
Boris Johnson’s ousted aides have privately predicted the ‘beginning of the end’ for the Prime Minister following the extraordinary row which broke out over the influence of Carrie Symonds. Friends of Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain, the Vote Leave duo who were forced to resign last week after losing a power struggle with the Prime … Read more
Dominic Cummings’ bombshell No 10 exit has been celebrated in Brussels as Brexit talks reach their ‘make or break’ moment. MEP Guy Verhofstadt led the fanfare by hitting out at ‘unelected bureaucrats, unrealistic ideologues’ on his Twitter page. Meanwhile Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said the exit of Boris Johnson’s top aide from Downing Street … Read more
Dominic Cummings arrived home with a bottle of champagne tonight after Boris Johnson ordered him to leave Downing Street for good. After a week of turmoil, the Prime Minister told his most senior adviser to go with immediate effect in a bid to end the toxic rows at No 10. Lee Cain, who announced his … Read more
Shocked Britons have taken to social media to share their thoughts on Dominic Cummings leaving Downing Street tonight. The Prime Minister’s former Svengali casually strolled out of Downing Street while clutching a cardboard box this evening – in a peculiar move that set the nation’s imagination wild. Some said Cummings resembled a schoolboy taking the class hamster … Read more
Dominic Cummings’ impending departure leaves question marks over some of the key policies he has been driving through. The maverick No10 chief has been the main influence on an array of issues since Boris Johnson became PM. Many of his pet projects were the subject of extensive blogs he wrote even before entering government. But … Read more
Dominic Cummings’ impending departure leaves question marks over some of the key policies he has been driving through. The maverick No10 chief has been the main influence on an array of issues since Boris Johnson became PM. Many of his pet projects were the subject of extensive blogs he wrote even before entering government. But … Read more
Boris Johnson’s old political ‘frenemy’ Michael Gove is looking increasingly isolated today after the resignation of Dominic Cummings, one of his closest and oldest allies. Mr Cummings and the Cabinet Office Minister have a long history of working together across Government and, perhaps most crucially, as the brains behind the Vote Leave Campaign in 2016. … Read more
Dominic Cummings is set to quit Downing Street in the New Year after his closest ally was ousted in a power struggle with Boris Johnson’s fiancée. The Prime Minister talked Mr Cummings out of resigning immediately following the departure of No 10 communications director Lee Cain on Wednesday night. Mr Johnson had initially offered to promote … Read more