Boris Johnson has joined forces with senior civil servants to resist moves by No10 adviser Dominic Cummings to shift them to a new suite of West Wing-style offices in Whitehall. According to senior Government sources, the Prime Minister has spent six months objecting to Mr Cummings’s attempt to move him out of the ramshackle No10 … Read more
Adviser linked to exams fiasco is given a key role in new planning changes that critics fear could see developers ‘concreting’ the countryside Tim Leunig joins team working on biggest changes to building laws in 70 years Dr Leunig was on government group that advised how to standardise grades Standardisation led to the downgrading of … Read more
A hard rain is coming, promised Dominic Cummings, the PM’s chief adviser, in June, borrowing from Bob Dylan. He meant that inefficient parts of the civil service and complacent senior officials should watch out. Good. One early target is Public Health England, which mishandled Covid-19 testing, and told care homes not to worry about the … Read more
Did Jeremy Corbyn’s Marxist henchman Seumas Milne infect Boris Johnson AND Dominic Cummings with coronavirus during Downing Street visit? On March 16, Mr Corbyn visited Mr Johnson at No.10 with his aide Mr Milne Joining them in the Prime Minister’s study was Mr Cummings The quartet were discussing the Government’s response to coronavirus A few … Read more
Young Army officers have been told they will be expected to be ‘more unconventional’ in warfare and master the ‘new domains of cyber and space’. The Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told Sandhurst graduates that the highly anticipated Integrated Defence and Security review, spearheaded by Dominic Cummings, would soon be published and would bring with it … Read more