Brexit’s mastermind: Profile of Dominic Cummings
His public utterances suggest an unexpected contempt for politicians. He appears to tolerate them only to reach the levers of power with which he is obsessed, and where he believes that he can effect much-needed change
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Name: Dominic Cummings
Age:47
Appearance: sparely-built, casually dressed
Newsworthiness: the mastermind behind the Brexit Leave campaign, he has now been appointed chief strategist and special adviser to the new British prime minister Boris Johnson
Dominic Cummings’s brain is often mentioned when his name comes up. But his ears are equally important. His acute antennae allow him to listen in a different way and in different places. He hears between the lines, and ...
