The Cabinet Office has drawn up a 20-page synopsis of all of Dominic Cummings’s blogsDominic Cummings is a man known to be fond of reading lists. But while the prime minister’s chief adviser exhorts others to read books on subjects such as “superforecasting” and “high output management” the civil service has a reading list of its own. Senior officials are asking colleagues who may come into contact with Boris Johnson’s combative henchman to read the musings of Mr Cummings. The Times understands that, after Mr Cummings’s arrival in Downing Street, the Cabinet Office drew up a synopsis, about 20 pages long, of all his blogs, as a guide to the thinking of the prime minister’s right-hand man. Now, as Mr Cummings embarks on a radical plan for restructuring Whitehall, the Cabinet Office is encouraging senior

Source: The Times July 09, 2020 23:09 UTC