Dominic Cummings: the brain behind Boris’s Brexit

Dominic Cummings, the architect of the Vote Leave campaign, is now in Downing Street and advising Boris Johnson. That has Remainers panicking. Why so fearful? 

Dominic Cummings © Ben Gurr/The Times

(Image credit: Dominic Cummings © Ben Gurr/The Times)

When Boris Johnson announced his reshuffle last week, one name above all stood out, says John McTernan in the FT: Dominic Cummings, appointed a senior adviser in No. 10. Once dubbed a "career psychopath" by former PM David Cameron, the architect of Vote Leave instills unease like none other. "I'm deeply disturbed by this development. Scared even," wrote the Lib Dem MP Layla Moran in the New Statesman. It now "looks like the forces of evil have their hands firmly gripped on the levers of power".

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She has edited corporate publications for accountants BDO, business psychologists YSC Consulting, and the law firm Stephenson Harwood – also enjoying a stint as a researcher for the due diligence department of a global risk advisory firm.

Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.

She lives in north London, has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford, and is currently learning to play the drums.