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The Dombusters What follows is a guest post by Toby... I feel ambivalent about Dominic Cummings's departure. I should confess that until March 23rd, when the country was plunged into lockdown, I was a huge fan. I liked his abrasive style, his brutal candour, his fearsome intelligence, his ability to keep his head when everyone about him is losing theirs... I even liked his incredibly long blog posts (and one upside of his departure is that we might see some more of those). He's a kind of campaigning genius, outsmarting his opponents at every turn, and I was usually on the same side as him, whether it was to keep Britain out of the Euro, leave the European Union or secure Boris a thumping majority. He has that same attribute that people used to attribute to Steve Jobs – a reality distortion field. He has this weird, almost supernatural ability to bend events to his will – to prevail against the odds by sheer force of personality. That's a rare gift in politics and I have no doubt we haven't seen the last of him. I can imagine Boris bringing him back to run the General Election campaign in 2024 when he's trailing Keir Starmer in the polls with two weeks to go. Although he may not be willing to ...
