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...Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to former prime minister Boris Johnson, sent messages to former head of communications Lee Cain complaining Johnson had gone “back to Jaws mode wank” and was “saying...
...Cain told the Covid inquiry on Tuesday that Johnson “should have done more” in early 2020 as the global crisis started to unfold....
...In private messages from March 2020 that were seen by the inquiry, Cain said Johnson did not believe Covid was a “big deal” and thought “his main danger [was] talking [the] economy into a slump”....
...more time”, Cain told the inquiry....
...Lee Cain told the Covid inquiry Johnson was a “challenging character to work with” because he would “oscillate” and “take a decision from the last person in the room”....
...The claims included those from Lee Cain, former Downing Street head of communications, who said Johnson had “oscillated” on key decisions, and Dominic Cummings, his former chief adviser, who described him...
...Lee Cain, former Downing Street head of communications, said Johnson was “challenging . . . to work with”, “oscillated” on key policy choices and took “a decision from the last person in the room”....
...Lee Cain, Johnson’s former communications chief, and Cummings are due to testify on Tuesday....
...“Isaac brings with him an incredible amount of focus, discipline and rigour,” said Lee Cain, founder of the Charlesbye PR firm. who worked with Levido on Boris Johnson’s highly successful 2019 campaign....
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...When his former communications director Lee Cain, a political appointee, said that Johnson’s skills were not suited to this crisis, it was hard to imagine any crisis that would have suited him better, given...
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling took it several steps — or buttons — further, displaying what is unfortunately known as “heavage”....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, said Labour’s plans to increase taxes on private schools, individuals with non-domicile status and private equity bosses, would raise...
...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....
...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....
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...Lee Cain, then 1o Downing Street’s Director of Communications, also voiced concerns about the event’s appropriateness....
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...The Sunday Times said a Number 10 insider denied Johnson had organised the event for Cain....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...of then communications director Lee Cain....
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