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'''Dominic Mckenzie Cummings''', whom [[David Cameron]] reportedly described as a "career [[psychopath]]", was chief of staff to [[Michael Gove]] (2010-2014) and is now special political adviser to [[Boris Johnson]].<ref>''[https://news.sky.com/story/controversial-ex-vote-leave-chief-dominic-cummings-to-join-boris-johnsons-team-in-number-10-11769523 "Who is 'career psychopath' Dominic Cummings set to join Johnson's team?"]''</ref> On 8 August 2019, [[The Canary]] headlined an article about him ''[[Brexit]] has given us an unelected bureaucrat, who married into aristocracy, pulling the strings in Downing Street''.<ref>''[https://www.thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2019/08/08/brexit-has-given-us-an-unelected-bureaucrat-who-married-into-aristocracy-pulling-the-strings-in-downing-street/ "Brexit has given us an unelected bureaucrat, who married into aristocracy, pulling the strings in Downing Street"]''</ref>
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'''Dominic Mckenzie Cummings''', whom [[David Cameron]] reportedly described as a "career [[psychopath]]" was chosen by UKPM  [[Boris Johnson]] as a special adviser.<ref>''[https://news.sky.com/story/controversial-ex-vote-leave-chief-dominic-cummings-to-join-boris-johnsons-team-in-number-10-11769523 "Who is 'career psychopath' Dominic Cummings set to join Johnson's team?"]''</ref> On 8 August 2019, [[The Canary]] headlined an article about him ''[[Brexit]] has given us an unelected bureaucrat, who married into aristocracy, pulling the strings in Downing Street''.<ref>''[https://www.thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2019/08/08/brexit-has-given-us-an-unelected-bureaucrat-who-married-into-aristocracy-pulling-the-strings-in-downing-street/ "Brexit has given us an unelected bureaucrat, who married into aristocracy, pulling the strings in Downing Street"]''</ref>
  
 
==Political background==
 
==Political background==

Revision as of 15:23, 11 August 2019

Person.png Dominic Cummings  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Brexit enforcer)
Dominic Cummings.jpg
BornDominic Mckenzie Cummings
25 November 1971
Alma materExeter College (Oxford)
Founder ofVote Leave
Member ofScientific Advisory Group for Emergencies
InterestsBrexit

Employment.png Special Adviser Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
24 July 2019 - Present
EmployerUK/Prime Minister
Appointed byBoris Johnson

Dominic Mckenzie Cummings, whom David Cameron reportedly described as a "career psychopath" was chosen by UKPM Boris Johnson as a special adviser.[2] On 8 August 2019, The Canary headlined an article about him Brexit has given us an unelected bureaucrat, who married into aristocracy, pulling the strings in Downing Street.[3]

Political background

A controversial figure, Dominic Cummings previously served as the Campaign Director of Vote Leave, the successful campaign advocating for the UK to vote to leave the European Union in the 2016 EU Referendum.[4] He also worked as Special Adviser to Education Secretary Michael Gove. In March 2019, he was found in contempt of Parliament for not appearing before the parliamentary committee inquiry into false news during the referendum campaign.[5]

Brexit "scandal"

In October 2016, the Mail on Sunday reported that the then Chief Whip, Gavin Williamson, told Downing Street that Michael Gove had had a homosexual relationship with personal and political ally Dominic Cummings, chief strategist of the Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 EU Referendum.[6]

 

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