Cummings should not have been allowed No 10 role, suggests Tory MP

Dominic Cummings arrives at No 10 earlier this month. Photograph: James Veysey/REX/ShutterstockBoris Johnson’s chief strategist Dominic Cummings should not have been allowed to take up his Downing Street post after being found in contempt of parliament, a leading Conservative MP and Johnson supporter has suggested.Cummings, who is shaping the government’s Brexit strategy in his role as the prime minister’s special adviser, repeatedly declined to appear in front of the House of