How Dominic Cummings became indispensable to Boris Johnson
PM prizes aide’s ability to slice through complexities and has sought to defend him following lockdown breach
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In Downing Street on Brexit night, 31 January this year, while Boris Johnson sounded a gong and quaffed Chateau Margaux, Dominic Cummings reportedly wept.
For Johnson, getting Brexit done was part and parcel of achieving his long-held ambition to be prime minister (the next best thing to “world king”, as the young Johnson once put it).
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