Current Events > Dominic Cummings to leave Downing Street by Christmas

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Boris Johnson's senior adviser Dominic Cummings is expected to leave his position by the end of the year.

Mr Cummings told the BBC "rumours of me threatening to resign are invented", after speculation this week.

But he added that his "position hasn't changed since my January blog" when he said that he wanted to make himself "largely redundant" by the end of 2020.

And a senior Downing Street source said that Mr Cummings would be "out of government" by Christmas. BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there was no question the announcement of his departure was "accelerated by turmoil in No 10 in recent days".

It comes after Lee Cain - the director of communications and an ally of Mr Cummings - stood down amid reports of internal tensions at Downing Street.

The pair are long-time colleagues, having worked together on the Leave campaign during the EU referendum - and Mr Cain's departure prompted rumours that his ally would also step down.

A No 10 insider told me Mr Cummings "jumped because otherwise he would be pushed soon", suggesting that, in the last few days, the prime minister saw that the former Vote Leave team was just "in it for themselves". Indeed for many Conservatives, Mr Cummings' departure, alongside Lee Cain the former director of communications, brings a chance for a reset. One member of the Cabinet even told me Mr Cummings' exit was a "blessing".

And yet, Dominic Cummings was valued hugely by Boris Johnson - one of the relentless architects of the prime minister's path to a hefty majority. One adviser told me it was a "huge error to let him go".

After Boris Johnson became prime minister in July 2019, he hired Mr Cummings to be his senior adviser, and six months later the pair's strategy of stressing "Get Brexit Done" as the main campaign message helped the party win a large majority in the general election.

Mr Cummings has become more of a public figure in the past year and was forced into holding his own news conference at Downing Street in the summer, following controversy over him making a trip to the north of England when non-essential travel was banned at the height of the coronavirus lockdown.

source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54925322

first trump loses the election and now this. is christmas coming early this year?

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Who

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Best Christmas present this year already in the bag.

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Nightcrawler?

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Literally says who he is in the post FFS. Try reading @SomeLikeItHoth @Medussa

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seriously?

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spikethedevil posted...

Literally says who he is in the post FFS.

Boris Johnson's senior adviser Dominic Cummings

Oh.......

......who?

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Trolls everywhere.

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take whatever pointy object currently rubbing against your genitals out of your panties. it's not that fucking serious.

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in american terms, it's like reince priebus or jared kushner (albeit cummings is a bit more alt right/pure evil) leaving the administration

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Parappa09 posted...

in american terms, it's like reince priebus or jared kushner (albeit cummings is a bit more alt right/pure evil) leaving the administration

good chance that his replacement will be less shitty, then?

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Medussa posted...

good chance that his replacement will be less shitty, then?

and hopefully a weakening of no-deal brexit

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this news had me cumming

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Parappa09 posted...

in american terms, it's like reince priebus or jared kushner (albeit cummings is a bit more alt right/pure evil) leaving the administration

Yeah, but is his face more punchable than Kushner's?

Boris is going to be lost without him considering he just does whatever Dominic tells him to do.

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Turtlebread posted...

this news had me cumming

ayyyy

treewojima posted...

Yeah, but is his face more punchable than Kushner's?

i'd want to punch them both tbh

spikethedevil posted...

Boris is going to be lost without him considering he just does whatever Dominic tells him to do.

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Cummings to leave No 10 with immediate effect

Boris Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings has left Number 10 with immediate effect, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says.

Mr Cummings spoke to the PM earlier on Friday and it was decided it was best for him to go immediately after days of turmoil, our political editor said.

source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54938050

lolol christmas confirmed early this year boys

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up

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And they said Santa wasn't real.

Far too late, but better late than never though. He's done untold damage to containing Covid and very likely caused the death of far more people than would've happened otherwise. Fuck him and everyone involved with him.

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Funkydog posted...

And they said Santa wasn't real.

Far too late, but better late than never though. He's done untold damage to containing Covid and very likely caused the death of far more people than would've happened otherwise. Fuck him and everyone involved with him.

with this year i'm taking the wins where they come

we're the first european country to break 50k deaths, smh. no excuse for that

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Parappa09 posted...

with this year i'm taking the wins where they come

we're the first european country to break 50k deaths, smh. no excuse for that

I'm sure we'll break more records this winter!

But yeah, this is a win. Even if a bittersweet late win. So something to celebrate.

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I've been pretty out of the loop on British politics until recently so I only know about him because of the new Spitting Image where he's depicted as an alien trying to take over the UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCyIB35_sc4

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