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...As Jim Pickard revealed back in 2020, Dominic Cummings, then an influential Downing Street aide, dismissed housing insulation as “boring”....
...Johnson’s popularity took a significant knock in May 2020 after another lockdown scandal involving a former key aide, Dominic Cummings, only for his ratings to pick up again within a few months....
...His now-spurned adviser Dominic Cummings memorably compared his former boss to a wonky “shopping trolley”, veering this way and that, avoiding tough decisions and personal confrontations, partly as a device...
...Mr Cummings has privately argued that the cash should be spent on building homes instead — with insulation a priority for later on....
...One senior Tory said there were “layers of insulation” from different parts of the parliamentary party to protect the prime minister. “There’s the Brexiters and then the 2019 intake....
...His speech this week is expected to feature pledges on hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, offshore wind and household insulation....
...Leucadia’s ownership should provide some insulation. Leucadia also has significant tax-deferred assets that it can deploy against Jefferies earnings, increasing the cash value of the deal....
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