Julian Lewis warns Dominic Cummings not to politicise ISC inquiries

Intelligence and security committee chair tells MPs no special advisers should be allowed near it

Julian Lewis, the new chair of parliament’s intelligence and security committee (ISC), has demanded that ministers prevent Dominic Cummings and other special advisers from politicising its future inquiries.

The independent MP told a Commons debate on the Russia report on Wednesday that he had been warned by a journalist that “some people within government” had tried to sack the committee’s civil service secretariat and “make political appointments” instead.

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