Boris Johnson's controversial advisor Dominic Cummings has left Downing Street for the final time after resigning from his role. it follows a turbulent week in Number 10 which saw infighting as Communications Director Lee Cain resigned.
That was from an extremely successful individual who worked with him for a short period and had to seek professional help as a result.His anger towards others leads some to say he's a psychopath. When he worked as adviser to Michael Gove at Education, civil servants complained of an 'aggressive, intimidating culture'.
Boris told me: 'Lots of people said I was mad to take him on. But I saw something in him I thought he could be channelled. In everything I've done that has gone well, I've always had an alter ego I could bounce things off. I thought Dom could be that person. Yet Cummings's belief in himself was staggering. I was told how, on the morning following the 2019 Election, Boris was due to make the traditional speech from outside No10 but was scheduled to be elsewhere at the time.
From what I was told, Cummings arrived in No10 actually thinking he was the Prime Minister, and even if he wasn't, that he had the authority to act as though he was 'He wanted me to agree with every decision he took but I wouldn't allow that because it's not how you lead a government and he just became angry. I wasn't allowing him to call the shots and this frustrated him. He started calling me 'the trolley'.'
'Cummings clearly wasn't interested and, out of the blue, he asked her: 'When did you last see Philip Hammond?' Sonia replied that she had been with him when he had resigned but that she hadn't seen him since. Cummings asked her a few more questions and then said: 'Will you show me your phone?' 'Clare Brunton, who was kind of Dominic's PA or secretary, appeared. 'Can you get security? I want her escorted out immediately.' Obviously, Sonia was shocked and at once asked him: 'What is this regarding?'
Her firing was immediately briefed to the press. They were told it was for leaking information about the No Deal contingency plan should the UK have to leave the EU without a withdrawal agreement, though she had never had any access whatsoever to these discussions or papers.
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