Dominic Cummings is to leave Downing Street by the end of the year, signalling an end to the dominance of the Vote Leave camp in Boris Johnson’s administration.
The prime minister’s senior adviser told the BBC that his position “hasn’t changed since my January blog”, in which he said that he hoped to make himself redundant by 2021.
He added: “Rumours of me threatening to resign are invented; rumours of me asking others to resign are invented.”
Cummings ignores questions on his resignation
Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that Mr Cummings would be “ready to move on” with the end of the Brexit transition period. He said that he would be missed but added: “Advisers do come and go.”
Sir Bernard Jenkin, a senior Tory
