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...It was gripping and the parody of Dominic Cummings is incredibly well-observed....
...Hannah WhiteWe have often agreed with Dominic Cummings in his analysis of the problems. We don’t always agree with him on his solutions....
...And I said to him, you know, you could be Dominic Cummings sitting there. And he said, well, some of the things that Dominic Cummings says is sensible....
...Well, it didn’t matter enough to stop Gove, Hancock or Cummings wanting Sunak to replace Johnson as prime minister....
...Lucy FisherAnd the FT’s Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy....
...Lucy Fisher is joined by the FT’s Stephen Bush and Miranda Green to examine his plan to strike a returns deal with the EU....
...The loan HBOS provided for the Telegraph acquisition was described by those familiar with its terms as “a classic Cummings handshake loan”, referring to Peter Cummings, the disgraced former head of HBOS’...
...As coincidence would have it, Wakefield is Dominic Cummings’ father in-law. It’s perhaps no surprise that Mullin is indulgent of Cummings’ much-publicised breach of Covid lockdown rules....
...This is similar to Sunak’s rise to prominence: he was appointed as chancellor because Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings confused his politeness for pliability....
...(Even some in Westminster wrote him off as a cipher of Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings when he was appointed as chancellor.)...
...The sudden repossession marks the latest twist in a saga that has dredged up bitter family feuds and placed the reclusive dynasty’s fortunes under a microscope, the FT’s Daniel Thomas, Stephen Morris and...
...David Cumming, head of UK equities at Newton Investment Management, warned that individual investors in particular would lose some safeguards....
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...As Jim Pickard revealed back in 2020, Dominic Cummings, then an influential Downing Street aide, dismissed housing insulation as “boring”....
...All of these things, we’ve got Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s former adviser, at the Covid inquiry next week and all sorts of lurid WhatsApp messages no doubt coming out....
...been strikingly absent under Cummings....
...I mean, he’s not literally gonna be hiding away in a shed in County Durham like Dominic Cummings, but I think he’s gonna be focused much more on these kind of deeper issues....
...It’s not by the Dominic Cummings ‘we need geeks in government’. It’s by changing the remit of government. We need to make it really cool.”...
...In another powerhouse performance, Stephen Graham is the prison warder showing him the ropes while trying to fend off the cons who are determined to drag him down....
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...To gain better career opportunities followed by to improve earnings potential and acquiring specialised skills remain the most popular motivators, say Leo Cremonezi and Sam Stephens....
...As we now know from Dominic Cummings’ blog, the prime minister was following instructions to do this and ignore officials “babbling” about Northern Ireland....
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