Vote Leave’s Brexit architect Dominic Cummings set for top role under Boris Johnson
One of the key architects of Brexit, Dominic Cummings, is poised to take on the role as senior adviser to the incoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The former Vote Leave director has also served as an adviser to former education secretary Michael Gove, who is also tipped for a top job in Johnson’s Cabinet.
The story of his role at Vote Leave was brought onscreen with Channel 4’s drama Brexit: The Uncivil War, in which Cummings was played by the actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Earlier this year Cummings was found to be in contempt of parliament for his refusal to give oral evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee which was conducting an inquiry into fake news in 2018.
The committee wanted Cummings to answer allegations about the Vote Leave campaign’s links to Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that folded last May after being rocked by revelations that it had acquired data from up to 87m Facebook users for political purposes.
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Cummings said he had offered to give evidence to the committee under oath but could not appear in front of MPs while another inquiry by the Electoral Commission was ongoing.
Other figures tipped for advisory roles are David Frost, a foreign policy adviser to Johnson while he was foreign secretary, and Eddie Lister, one of Johnson’s former aides at City Hall.
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