Dominic Cummings

Dominic Cummings   (Special Adviser)
Born	Dominic Mckenzie Cummings 25 November 1971
Founder of	Vote Leave
Member of	Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies

Dominic Mckenzie Cummings, whom David Cameron reportedly described as a "career psychopath" was chief of staff to Michael Gove. Tom Coburg headlined an article about him Brexit has given us an unelected bureaucrat, who married into aristocracy, pulling the strings in Downing Street.

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. 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.

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.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Boris Johnson in Downing Street for five years: what could possibly go wrong?	Article	30 December 2019	John S Warren	All the cards are held by Boris Johnson because he has the answer to all the problems facing Britain. Save, perhaps, one: what could possibly go wrong for the Conservative-Brexit Government?
Document:Britain’s creeping cronyism	Article	1 September 2020	Richard Norton-Taylor	The culture of the Johnson government may be very different from that of Whitehall’s “permanent government”. But the two have one thing in common, lack of accountability and addiction to official secrecy.
Document:Former MI6 chief behind faked “evidence” for Iraq war leading anti-China Wuhan lab conspiracy	Article	10 June 2021	Julie Hyland	President Biden's intelligence service order relating to the Wuhan lab leak theory was issued the same day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, gave evidence before a parliamentary committee in which he confirmed a government policy to allow tens of thousands to die from Covid-19.
Document:Interfering with Laura Kuenssberg	blog post	25 November 2019	Craig Murray	It's no coincidence that it is precisely the old and the poorly educated that are the targets of Dominic Cummings’ "Brexit election” strategy. If it comes off, Laura Kuenssberg and her fellow hacks will have proven that the power of the mainstream media is as yet unbroken.
Document:Let’s Move On From Boris	blog post	28 May 2020	Craig Murray	"Boris Johnson on the Dominic Cummings debacle: 'It is now time to move on… the country wants to move on.' If a politician tells you to 'move on' from a subject, it is a gigantic red flag that you should do precisely the opposite."
Document:Parody Britain and the Death of the Fourth Estate	Article	9 December 2021	Mike Small	This is a ruling elite, a governing class that comes from the same strata, shares the same education and is literally inter-married. In this context the idea that such a media can hold the powerful to account is of course laughable. The British media is incestuous and dysfunctional.
Document:Project Brexit	Comment	24 June 2017	David	Project Brexit: "Doomed to Failure"
Document:The Centre Blows Itself Up: Care and Spite in the ‘Brexit Election’	Article	13 January 2020	David Graeber	At the 'Brexit Election' of 2019, the anti-Semitism accusations weakened Labour immensely. But it was the – ultimately successful – campaign by the 'Centrists' to force Jeremy Corbyn to reverse his position on Brexit that really ensured their party’s electoral disaster.
Document:The Dreamings of Dominic Cummings	Article	24 October 2019	James Meek	For Dominic Cummings the whole Brexit crisis may be a venturesome trial with disposable vessels: voters, the Conservative Party, the United Kingdom. If it doesn’t work out, there’s always California, and the rest of the solar system.
Document:The left’s Trump card - weekly briefing	Article	15 November 2020	Lindsey German	The Populist Right has had a bad week. Dominic Cummings left Downing Street on Friday after his relationship with Boris Johnson, according to reports, ‘fell off a cliff’. Donald Trump may still be refusing to acknowledge his election defeat, but he is on his way out of the US presidency. The Left still has everything to play for.
Document:The schools scandal	Article	19 August 2020	Lewis Goodall	How a government led by technocrats nearly destroyed a generation of social mobility
Document:Track and Trace. Stay Elite.	Article	29 May 2020	David Black	Poor Dido was pressed into service early by Boris and the lads when she launched her Track and Trace initiative some days ahead of its scheduled June 1st slot in a ludicrously transparent attempt to draw fire from Corporal Cummings, whose lockdown breaching escapades were causing havoc in Tory ranks.
Document:Why Barnard Castle	blog post	24 May 2020	Craig Murray	On 12 April 2020 Dominic Cummings was seen in Castle Barnard during lockdown. Two days later, GSK of Barnard Castle signed an agreement to develop and manufacture a vaccine with Sanofi of France.
Document:Why the NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app failed	Article	19 June 2020	Matt Burgess	On 18 June 2020, Matt Hancock announced that the planned centralised NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app, which has been trialled on the Isle of Wight and downloaded by tens of thousands of people, has been ditched in favour of a decentralised system developed by Google and Apple.

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