Boris Johnson on last chance, say Tory MPs amid bitter infighting
2020-11-13 10:23:06 source：The Guardian
November 13, 2020
Boris Johnson has one final chance to overhaul a dysfunctional Downing Street operation beset by crises, Conservative MPs have warned after bitter infighting triggered the sudden departure of one of his closest aides.
A string of Tories said the resignation of No 10 communications director Lee Cain, after Johnson’s fiancee and inner circle blocked his promotion to chief of staff, epitomised a No 10 riven by factions, cut off from backbench MPs and lurching from crisis to crisis.
It came amid renewed rumours that Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s chief adviser and another alumnus of the Vote Leave campaign, could also be planning to quit by Christmas or even earlier. Responding to speculation over his departure, he told the BBC that his “position hasn’t changed since my January blog” when he said that he wanted to make himself “largely redundant” by the end of 2020.
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