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Dominic Cummings will step down from his role as senior adviser to the prime minister by the end of the year, Sky News understands.
A Downing Street source told Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby that the controversial aide will be leaving No.10, having been one of the Boris johnsonThe first appointments when he became prime minister in July last year.
In a blog post in January, the prime minister’s senior aide said he planned to step down by the end of the year, but his departure will now come after a bitter behind-the-scenes power struggle in Downing Street, something that has likely been expedited Your decision.
His departure will now come after a bitter fight for power behind the scenes in Downing Street.
The row came out with the resignation of his close ally Lee Cain as communications director to the prime minister.
Mr. Cummings and Cain worked with Johnson as part of the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 EU referendum.
Since then, they are considered to have led a faction of Vote Leave colleagues at Number 10 and other parts of the government.
But his departures follow the appointment of former journalist Allegra Stratton as Downing Street’s new television spokesperson, to which Cain was said to have objected.
Cummings, once described by former Prime Minister David Cameron as a “career psychopath,” is a former Conservative Party strategy director and former aide to Cabinet Minister Michael Gove.
He was credited as one of the most influential figures behind the success of Vote Leave under his catchphrase “Take Back Control.”
The news follows the resignation of his close ally Lee Cain as the prime minister’s communications director.
As part of Johnson’s top team, Cummings helped secure the Conservative Party’s landslide victory in last year’s general election.
It was said that it subsequently focused on projects such as the creation of a research agency for advanced defense projects and the reform of public procurement processes.
Cummings gained national notoriety this year when he was accused of violating lockdown rules by making a trip from London to the North East, at a time when he feared he had contracted coronavirus.
He also admitted to driving to Barnard Castle as a means of testing his eyesight.
Despite enormous pressure for Johnson to fire his top aide, the prime minister supported Cummings.
During his time at Number 10, Cummings asked “misfits and freaks” to apply for jobs in Downing Street.
One of the employees was subsequently forced to resign soon after his earlier comments appeared online.
Analysis: many conservatives will be happy, but not the prime minister
By Chief Political Correspondent Jon Craig
It looks like Dominic Cummings’ departure will coincide with the departure of Lee Cain, his longtime Vote Leave ally. Cummings is letting it be known that in January of this year he said he was gone in a year or so.
In the blog he wrote about hiring “weirdos and misfits,” he spoke of wanting to improve performance and make his role “largely redundant” in one year.
But his departure appears to have been hastened by the events of the last 48 hours that have changed things dramatically.
In the past few days, we’ve seen Cain on the verge of being named the prime minister’s chief of staff just because of a huge backlash from Johnson’s fiancé and his new spokeswoman Allegra Stratton.
So the offer appears to have been withdrawn, which has clearly upset Cummings greatly. When he arrived at number 10 on Thursday morning, he looked miserable, while Mrs. Stratton looked like the cat who had been given the cream.
What a dramatic turn of events at the peak of politics. Many conservative MPs and cabinet ministers, who regard Cummings as an evil influence, will be delighted. Not so the Prime Minister.
