Dominic Cummings has left 10 Downing Street

[WildRosie]

I expect many will be pleased about this. Did he have any official status in government to begin with ?

viques I absolutely LOVE that Diary Of A Nobody reference!

@Pedallleur

He will not be unemployed long if at all.

Fine. As long as we don’t have to see his odious personage swanning around Downing Street.

Friday 13th is a good day for this reason and others.

Over the moon here! Suddenly 2020 is brightening up. I doubt he'll be really gone though: it's all theatre now.

Perhaps he'll be back like Peter Mandelson, or in the Lords. I have for some reason often thought of Mandelson next to Cummings, although Tories have their own strong record with political advisors, and Mandelson had at least the grace to be an elected MP.

He'll walk straight into another job. Love him or hate him he did what he was supposed to do and got the Brexit vote won. I'm surprised he stuck around for as long as he did after Brexit and the general election. I also don't think this is the last we'll see of him, he won't go quietly.

It was a very well stage managed exit photo wasn’t it? He didn’t have to be photographed leaving like that did he?.

Perhaps he'll be back like Peter Mandelson

Just hopefully not on TV doing train programmes.

@PhilCornwall1

Perhaps he'll be back like Peter Mandelson

Just hopefully not on TV doing train programmes.

Ooops, wrong MP!!!! It's been a long day!!! I was thinking of someone else!!

@Onesmallstepforaman

Gone for an eye test?

I love this - hope the door didn’t hit him in the ass too hard on the way out

I'd like to know what's gone on because honestly it's making me even more nervous about Brexit. I'm a staunch remainer but clearly I want it to go as well as it can, and I hope this isn't the rats leaving the sinking ship.

Extraordinary really. Johnson lost so much political capital in defending Cummings after his Barnard Castle trip, arguably it contributed to the rise in coronavirus figures because it signalled to the country that the rules could be ignored. And all that bought him was another seven months of Cummings' highly dubious services, including the wastage of billions of pounds on contracts going to Cummings' mates. I wonder if he really thinks it was worth it?

@Pedallleur

He will not be unemployed long if at all.

He probably doesn't need a job. He's already made an absolute fortune out of ruthlessly exploiting his Downing Street position.

He flounced because of all the shenanigans this week regarding Chief of Staff appointments and Carrie and her allies bent Bozo’s ear putting their foot down over the proposed ludicrous appointment of the ex Mirror journalist to the role. Cummings didn’t get his way and resigned.

He won’t be missed and should have gone over the lockdown debacle. He weakened Bozo and it will be interesting to see whether our PM is even more rudderless without him.

Good he’s gone

But depressing it wasn’t the barnard castle sight test he went over

Wow

No he will have a lot of takers for whatever next

I hope Johnson doesn’t become less coherent without him

Who is Carrie? She is just the girlfriend isnt she, does she have an official role?
It's like the Tudor Court not proper politics

I hope Johnson doesn’t become less coherent without him

Is that possible, bearing in mind every statement with him at the fore is full of bluster, soundbites and banging the table...

I know. It’s a concern given the situation ;

But I do think Cummings fed some understandable comms his way

Hopefully all the people talking about decency and integrity will prop him up instead

Delighted here.
But what will Boris do next given that his most trusted advisors have gone. Interesting times.

Ah no that's a shame. As has been said, it's likely because things are about to get worse.

Although I wonder if he was the leak and they agreed to make it seem like he was ousted by Carrie

Well good riddance, but too late for the disaster that is brexit waiting for us in Jan, the millions spent on chucking contracts to his mates when they should have gone to people who understand the health crisis and the undermining of the most important health message in decades (Barnard Castle)

I hope the stage managed exit was Carrie's doing. To signal to the world that the guard has changed, it is a powerful visual image- something as a common person she would consider, but cummings in his ego would not. He isn't very good at comms, unless it is a three word slogan or lies.

A comms person, not a common person.