Dominic Cummings will leave Downing Street at the end of this year, the BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg is reporting. Cummings is one of those rare individuals who has bent the arc of history. He has been crucial, if not indispensable, to several key moments in this country’s recent past. His work at Business for Sterling is one of the things that put Tony Blair off attempting to take the UK into the Euro. Even more importantly, it is hard to believe that Leave would have won the 2016 referendum without the brilliant, heterodox campaign that Cummings devised.
Cummings has long been more interested in how government works
The victory in that Brexit referendum might have come to very little if Cummings had not returned to the fray in 2019. He, after much cajoling, entered Downing Street with Boris Johnson. There he provided a brutal clarity. Under his watch, the Tory party expelled Brexit blockers, reached an agreement with the EU, and then fought a general election campaign on an ‘oven ready deal’ that wrong-footed the Labour party and delivered an 80 seat majority.
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