Since his entry into the highest echelons of government as the prime minister’s Machiavel, Dominic Cummings has generated countless column inches. The articles are sometimes provoked by his sheer – if somewhat cultivated – weirdness and inflated sense of his own intellectual acuity; others are written by horrified liberals trembling at an electoral savant and genius sloganeer now set on remaking the state. But Cummings is chiefly interesting because Boris Johnson is frustratingly amorphous: we reach for the prolix ‘career psychopath’ (as David Cameron described him) to flesh out the prime minister’s still empty programme for government. Flashes of optimism over the past week that Cummings’s influence was waning – having lost out in arguments over HS2 and Huawei – now seem premature. Yesterday’s reshuffle has his bootprints all over it.
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