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Dominic Cummings, one of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s most influential advisers, will leave his post in the heart of Downing Street when Brexit ends at the end of the year, after an internal battle over who should be Johnson’s chief of staff.
Cummings, who planned the 2016 Brexit referendum vote and Johnson’s landslide bid for the 2019 election, told the BBC that his position had not changed since January, when he said he wanted to be largely redundant by the end of this. year.
Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps told Sky that Cummings had planned not to remain in his position as Johnson’s senior adviser for much more than a year, once Britain left the informal membership of the European Union.
“As he wrote right at the beginning of the year in his own words, he planned to become largely redundant this year with the big thing he had worked on, of course, which was Brexit coming to an end at the end of the transition period that It’s December 31, ”Shapps said.
The BBC quoted an unidentified Downing Street source as saying Cummings would be “out of government” by Christmas. Another unidentified source told the BBC that Mr Cummings “jumped because otherwise he would be shoved soon.”
Mr Cummings told the BBC that “rumors are made up of me threatening to resign, rumors are made up that I am asking others to resign.”
Shapps said we would miss Cummings because it was nice to have someone in government to turn things around.
As Johnson negotiates the final stages of a Brexit trade deal and grapples with a second wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Downing Street has been hit by an internal battle over who should become Johnson’s chief of staff.
Johnson’s communications director, Lee Cain, resigned Wednesday. Cain, another Brexit supporter, was a close Cummings ally and worked with him on the Vote Leave campaign. – Reuters
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