It all started with the appointment of a new HR chief of the prime minister’s team. This was to become Lee Cain, the current director of communications. This has caused embarrassment among Conservative MPs and ministers.
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Cain is considered a close ally of Dominic Cummings, the government’s top adviser and chief strategist for the Vote Leave campaign, which four years ago promoted the UK’s exit from the European Union.
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Cain himself was very active in the campaign. Many conservatives saw Cummings’s puppet in it and the increasing influence of the eccentric strategist in his promotion. Johnson’s fiancée Carrie Symonds was also said to have opposed Cain’s appointment. The Telegraph literally wrote that it “vetoed” the move. There is so much speculation that she is actually holding power in her hands.
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Activists in front of the parliament in London call for leaving the EU.
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“Career Psychopath”
The Conservative Party has long been divided over Cummings. One part considers him a genius consultant, the other a dangerous maniac. After all, he was once described by the then Prime Minister David Cameron as a “career psychopath”.
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British society has been dominating Dominic Cummings in the stomach for a long time. He last annoyed her in May, when it became clear that, despite coronavirus measures, he had set out on a 425 km journey to visit his parents. He soon fell ill.
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Boris Johnson s partnerkou Carrie Symondsovou
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The British were upset by the fact that, as a potentially contagious person, he did not respect the rules he helped to create.
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The opposition (not only) demanded his head. But she didn’t come. Cummings held a special television briefing in the garden, trying to defend his behavior. He denied violating anything and refused to apologize.
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Blessing or mistake?
Opposition Labor quickly responded to the internal party “chachry”. “We are in the middle of a pandemic, we are all worried about the health of our families, we are afraid of work, and this party is arguing outside Downing Street,” said President Keir Starmer.
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He told BBC Cummings that he had decided to leave a long time ago and that the resignation of his colleague had no effect on that. “If he doesn’t jump, someone will push him,” one of his co-workers responded.
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Mixed feelings in Government about the departure of Dominic Cummings
Here’s one aide: ‘He is not everyone’s cup of tea, but he’s a winner. I worry that without him we will regress to being a party for rich southerners
‘He genuinely cares about working class communities’
— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) November 13, 2020
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But even now, the Conservative Party is not united. According to some deputies, Cummings’ departure is a chance to restart. One member of the government even called the move a blessing. “But one of the advisers told me that letting him go was a huge mistake,” says BBC reporter Laura Kinsberg.
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Some conservatives are afraid that without it, the party will again be perceived as a group of “rich Southerners”. Conservatives also need to score points among workers from the north. “He really cares about the lives of the working class,” The Times quoted another adviser as saying.
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Forty-eight-year-old Cummings is indispensable for the Prime Minister. He helped him gain great popularity, gain a prime minister’s seat and, ultimately, a strong majority in the House. The question, however, is how long Boris Johnson still plans to be prime minister. As the tabloid Sunday Mirror found out some time ago, he sometimes complains to his friends about the low prime minister’s salary.
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After all, Johnson has almost reached the highest goal ever set in history: the United Kingdom has left the European Union and since 1.1. 2021 will no longer be bound by its rules.
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