Now Boris Johnson has decided to appoint Cummings to Downing Street, a brilliantly kept secret that his new adviser will have adored. The unique aspect of Cummings is that he is so many different things at once. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty ImagesGove, polite to a fault, would often feign ignorance of his adviser’s methods, but knew full well the dark arts that Cummings deployed to get his master’s way. One friend says he simply did not go into government after the Vote Leave triumph because his wife, Mary Wakefield, had just had their baby (during the referendum) and she pretty much forbade him. “He brought in physicists to help Vote Leave properly crunch data.

Source: The Guardian July 26, 2019 13:20 UTC