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...Crosby took Levido under his wing and into Conservative HQ ahead of David Cameron’s 2015 election campaign, which Cameron surprisingly won....
...He described the leaving party on November 13, 2020 for Lee Cain — his former director of communications — as “necessary” because of tensions in Downing Street at the time....
...Cummings, along with Lee Cain, Johnson’s former comms chief, were giving evidence at the Covid inquiry. FT contributing editor and columnist Camilla Cavendish was there to hear it and see it in person....
...However, Lee Cain, former director of communications at Number 10, pushed back against the criticism....
...The Sunday Times said a Number 10 insider denied Johnson had organised the event for Cain....
...Johnson was fined for attending a gathering to celebrate his birthday in Downing Street on June 19 2020, but did not receive a penalty for attending Cain’s leaving event....
...According to ITV News, the pictures were taken at an event at Number 10 on November 13 2020 to mark the departure of then communications director Lee Cain....
...Lee Cain, then 1o Downing Street’s Director of Communications, also voiced concerns about the event’s appropriateness....
...Part of the prime minister’s efforts to reset his government also involve him fostering better relations with Conservative MPs who objected to the influence and abrasive approach of Mr Cummings and Mr Cain...
...Sir Charles said Andrew Feldman, former chair of the Conservative party under David Cameron, or David Canzini, a former Tory agent who helped Mr Johnson run his leadership campaign, would be good candidates...
...“Boris isn’t thinking about bringing back lots of Cameron people like Jeremy Hunt,” one well-placed government official said, referring to ministers who served under former Tory prime minister David Cameron...
...Although Boris Johnson is a former journalist, his communications team — led by his long-serving aide Lee Cain — does not trust much of the media....
...During the planned speech by David Cameron, then prime minister, they unfurled a banner casting the CBI as the “voice of Brussels”....
...Lee Cain, Mr Johnson’s director of communications, should at least see the funny side: he made his name as a young journalist as the Mirror chicken harassing then Tory leader David Cameron in 2010....
...Lee Cain, Mr Johnson’s spin-doctor, is using his experience from the Leave campaign to ensure he stays on message — keeping him largely shielded from the national media....
...In truth, she was already badly weakened by domestic concerns but Europe was the catalyst and in the betrayal myth that built up among her disciples, support for European integration was a mark of Cain....
...David Cameron, UK prime minister, has described it as “one of the great unsung triumphs of the last parliament”, yet just six months ago the future of the Government Digital Service had seemed in doubt....
...Some point to general flaws in polling, not least in the May British election where nobody forecast the decisive victory of David Cameron and his Conservatives....
...Many businesses are in the Baltic Triangle, sandwiched between the cathedrals and the redundant Cain’s brewery in Toxteth, which is to be redeveloped....
...“What’s driving the growth is they’re building cinemas at an astonishing rate,” says Rob Cain, a film producer who specialises in China-US co-productions....
...For the US, I only need to evoke the names Herman Cain and Rick Perry....
...(Sorry David Cameron, I am otherwise engaged)....
...This isn’t Liam and Noel Gallagher; it’s Cain and Abel. Well, almost. 15:07 JP Good point Alex....
...Cain and Abel. What a coincidence. Or do we critics plant these segues?...
...The Bolshoi’s Anastasia Yatsenko was the welcome guest here, dancing exquisitely, partnered by New York City Ballet’s Craig Hall in the opening duet to Chopin’s “A Wish” (pianist Cameron Grant)....
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