UK PM’s top adviser leaves Downing Street

London, Nov 14 : Putting an end to speculations, Dominic Cummings, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s chief aide, has exited the Downing Street, a media report said on Saturday.
According to the BBC report, Cummings will continue to work from home, on issues such as mass coronavirus testing, until the middle of December.
His departure from Downing Street on Friday night had been brought forward given the “upset in the team” in Downing Street, for which she said it had been a “difficult week”, the report said.
It added that Johnson is said to want to “clear the air and move on”.
The departure comes after Lee Cain, Director of Communications and an ally of Cummings, resigned on November 11 amid reports of internal tensions at Downing Street.
Cain and Cummings are long-time colleagues and had worked together on the ‘Leave’ campaign during the 2016 European Union referendum.