Former adviser says Boris Johnson approved plans to move brief from BEIS to central government
The prime minister’s former adviser Dominic Cummings claims Boris Johnson approved his proposal to move the science and technology brief from the business department to the Cabinet Office.
Cummings, who left his role in late 2020 amid rumours of an internal power struggle at Number 10, told MPs he had argued for 10 years that science and technology should be a core part of the prime minister’s job.