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What Dominic Cummings and the Prime Misfit have in common

5 June 2021

9:00 AM

5 June 2021

9:00 AM

Should the name of Dominic Cummings ever make it into the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, there’s one Cummings phrase our successors are sure to see. ‘Weirdos and misfits’ were what he valued. He said so in his blog, describing his preferred applicants for a job with his team at No.

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