Theresa May’s adviser Fiona Cunningham has resigned as part of the fallout from the Cabinet row over extremism as David Cameron seeks to regain control of his ministers.
The Prime Minister today received the results of Sir Jeremy Heywood’s investigation into the row, which exploded onto the front page of the Times and spread like wildfire through other media as the Gove and May camps briefed against one another. Both have been set tasks by the PM to demonstrate that this row is over. Gove has written to Charles Farr and Cameron apologising for his briefing over lunch to the Times which sparked the row. As for the furious response from May’s advisers, that has cost Cunningham, in a relationship with Farr and the source of those explosive briefings to the newspaper, her job. Gove will also give an account of the findings of the investigations into the schools in Birmingham to the Commons on Monday.
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