Desperate Dan, door-shutting Dan, Dominic Cummings without the hoodie, Dom in a suit and Cummings without the charm are a few of the sobriquets used in Westminster to describe Dan Rosenfield, Boris Johnson’s technocratic chief of staff. The one-time Treasury official, who purportedly told civil servants he and others reduced document print sizes so it was harder for Gordon Brown to read briefs, is losing friends and alienating special advisers by favouring civil servants over spads in meetings. The Bring Back Dom campaign hasn’t started but euphoria at his downfall in November 2020 is a distant memory in No 10.
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