Dominic Cummings
Dominic Mckenzie Cummings (born 25 November 1971) is a British political strategist who has served as senior adviser[2][3] to Prime Minister Boris Johnson since July 2019.
From 2007 to 2014, he was a Special Adviser to Michael Gove, including the time that Gove served as Secretary of State for Education, before he was dismissed by Prime Minister David Cameron. From 2015 to 2016, Cummings was Director of the successful Vote Leave campaign, an organisation opposed to continued British membership of the European Union that took an active part in the 2016 referendum campaign for Brexit.
Early life
Cummings was born in Durham on 25 November 1971. His father, Robert, had a varied career, but primarily built oil rigs for Laing, the construction firm. His mother, Morag, a university graduate, was a teacher and behavioural specialist.[4] Sir John Grant McKenzie Laws, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, was his uncle.[5]
After attending state primary school, he was educated at Durham School and Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied under Norman Stone,[6] graduating in 1994 with a First in Ancient and Modern History.[7] One of his professors has described him to the New Statesman as "fizzing with ideas, unconvinced by any received set of views about anything". He was "something like a Robespierre – someone determined to bring down things that don’t work."[5] Also in his youth, he worked at Klute, a nightclub owned by his uncle in Durham.[8]
After university, Cummings moved to Yeltsin's post-Soviet Russia from 1994 to 1997, working on various projects. In one Russian venture, he worked for a group attempting to set up an airline connecting Samara in southern Russia to Vienna
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