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Farage is frantic about Brexit ‘sell-out’ due to Cummings exit
Nigel Farage has insisted that the exit of Boris Johnson’s top aide from Downing Street means a “Brexit sell-out” is looming.
Domxit
Farage said he never liked the prime minister’s outgoing chief adviser Dominic Cummings, but he is concerned about the consequences of his departure. Cummings left Number 10 carrying a box on the evening of 14 November as it was reported he had quit as the PM’s right-hand man.
It is well documented that I have never liked Dominic Cummings but he has backed Brexit.
Seeing him leave Number 10 carrying a cardboard box tells me a Brexit sell-out is close. pic.twitter.com/Ysli7ZLCLY
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) November 13, 2020
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The comments came after Downing Street insisted that Cummings’s departure would not impact Brexit talks. His dramatic exit from Number 10 comes at a crucial juncture in the post-Brexit talks between the UK and Brussels.
The PM’s official spokesperson James Slack insisted that suggestions the government could compromise on key principles in the wake of Cummings’ decision to leave were “simply false”.
Leave
Cummings was widely seen as the mastermind behind the victorious Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum. Talks on a free trade agreement between the UK and EU have been continuing this week in London and are due to “pause” over the weekend before resuming next week in Brussels.
London and the EU are trying to hammer out a post-Brexit trade deal after the current transition period finishes on December 31. The PA news agency understands that Cummings will still be employed until the middle of December, although reports suggest he will be working from home.
Speculation has surrounded the future of the UK’s chief Brexit negotiator lord David Frost, but he has remained in his role as talks reach a heightened stage.
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Being a sea-green incorruptible Farage sees plots everywhere. Like Robespierre, he has created the terror that will behead him.
On the principle that government always denies something which they’re about to implement, this is one of the best bits of news I’ve seen all week.
‘The PM’s official spokesperson James Slack insisted that suggestions the government could compromise on key principles in the wake of Cummings’ decision to leave were “simply false”.’