UK: Johnson’s top adviser Dominic Cummings leaves 10 Downing Street, for good?
By DW
16 November 2020 |
9:08 am
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's most powerful adviser was spotted carrying a cardboard box out of 10 Downing Street, a day after intimating that he would soon quit. UK media immediately reported that he would not return.
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