Skip to content. Jag was also a speaker at the Russian Social Media incubator Digital Barbeque, organised by Mark Flanagan of Portland Communications and featuring Jag's friend Paul Staines, owner of Guido Fawkes, who would set up an election data company WESS with Cummings and his Pro-Russian CEO Matthew Elliott.
As a senior advisor to the Prime Minister, it is assumed that he has had access to the Government’s most sensitive files – and this is precisely why Emily Thornberry has raised questions regarding his vetting process.Ms Thornberry posed a series of questions to Dominic Raab, such as: “…what was Cummings’s relationship with academics at Oxford University, and did they discuss the possibility of working to support the post-communist Russian government?”She adds “Was Cummings questioned about the purpose of his three-year period of work in post-communist Russia between 1994 and 1997, including relationships with figures in Russian politics, intelligence and security?”Finally, Ms Thornberry asked “was Cummings questioned about relationships with members of the group Conservative Friends of Russia?”The letter comes at a particularly damaging time for Boris Johnson, as in the same week the Prime Minister was accused of sitting on an Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) report on Russian interference with UK democracy.
Elliott then flew to Washington and told his future wife Trump Republican American Sarah, he had been headhunted to run the Leave Campaign in 2013.
He said: “This is precisely what he was.
There’s nothing sinister about it.’ Well, he would say that wouldn’t he?Thornberry was probably briefed on Cummings by one of those intelligence goons who gravitate between security, political and hedge-fund circles. The letter, which was also sent to the heads of MI5 and MI6, as well as the head of the Intelligence and Security Committee Dominic Grieve, was written as a response to “serious concerns from an official-level whistle-blower”. In the letter penned by Emily Thornberry – as reported by – there is a clear concern about the “relationships” that Boris Johnson’s Chief Advisor might have developed with people involved in “…politics, intelligence and security” whilst in Russia. Dominic Cummings (pictured above) worked in Russia in the 1990s The Prime Minister's most senior adviser is facing questions from the opposition government over his past in Russia .
However, in August this year, shortly after Boris Johnson entered No 10, Downing Street and the Department of Health announced a £250m fund to boost the use of AI in the NHS by using automated systems for diagnoses or data analysis. Last month, she called the Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard a ‘Russian asset’. Dominic Cummings's Blog. The dramatic win for No to AV was achieved by outspending the Pro AV campaign aided by Russian linked money, and the use of targetted facebook spend greater than any previous campaign. Award-winning official students' newspaper, University of Sussex. I worked in Russia 1994-7 on various projects.
Both Jag and Elliott went to Moscow as paid guests for 10 days in 2012. This, alongside the questioning of Dominic Cummings, places an increased level of scrutiny on Number 10. He hasn’t changed much.”Smyslov, who recently opened a British “health” company called 100nuts Ltd and lives in Lithuania, described one incident when he and Cummings tried to impress potential investors.He said: “We managed to reserve the bank’s oak-panelled boardroom for the meeting, and told the fund representatives that the whole building was ours.“We invited around 10 friends, made them put on shirts and ties and to attend the meeting with the fund pretending they worked for us.“They were very impressed with the group of uniformed men with machine guns – the bank’s security – at the entrance to the building.“The meeting went well. Although the money has yet to be allocated, Babylon is well placed to benefit as a key player in the AI field.
In the end he got nothing.”Cummings’ next job in Russia was working at Samara Airlines for American businessman Adam Dixon.Dixon, now living in Connecticut, told how on one occasion Cummings was entertained by a Samara Airlines executive and his colleague who aimed to obtain the secret passwords to the ticketing he controlled for the airline.Dixon said: “The man in question was almost twice Dominic’s size. This was history on speed, and loads of bright people were drawn to it. But does it explain Brexit? As conspiracy theories tend to do, it intertwines neatly with the other big one: that Russia hacked the American presidential election for Donald Trump. It gives the world a vastly inflated sense of Moscow’s strength. How about proof that Russian activity changed the minds of voters? They claim, for instance, that Russians agents are everywhere. Dominic Cummings, served as the campaign director of Vote Leave in 2016.
I worked on various projects 2003-7, including trying to stop the EU Constitution being… Veteran Moscow journalist John Helmer suggested in a blog that Cummings, who helped mastermind Brexit, could be a “sleeper agent” for Moscow. Brexit's Moriarty Dominic Cummings has a number of little known links with Russia, the Putin regime and Oligarchs close to the Russian Mafia. The links between Dominic Cummings, Russia and the suppressed ISC report will undoubtedly present concerns about transparency between the government and the general public.
He didn’t speak Russian.” Cummings quit after barely a year and returned to the UK.Labour has raised questions with No10 over his time in Russia, from 1994 to 1997, asking about his “relationships with figures in Russian politics, intelligence and security”. From 2007 to 2014, he was a special adviser to Michael Gove, including the time that Gove served as Education Secretary, leaving when Gove was made Chief Whip in a cabinet reshuffle. In July 2019, Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed him to the role of ‘special advisor to the Prime Minister’; but as of November 2019, Mr Cummings came under fire when his connections to Russia began to be questioned.Cummings spent three years working in Russia from 1994 to 1997, after graduating from Oxford University. Mr Cummings left the role in July last year.
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