Ex-Vote Leave chief joins Treasury as Sajid Javid adviser

Soft Brexit opponent Matthew Elliott joins Dominic Cummings as key policymaker

Matthew Elliott, the former chief executive of Vote Leave and the founder of the rightwing pressure group the TaxPayers' Alliance, has been named as an adviser to Sajid Javid at the Treasury in the new government's latest controversial backroom appointment.

After managing the new chancellor's failed campaign for prime minister, Elliott joins Dominic Cummings, the former head of the Vote Leave campaign who is now one of two senior advisers to Boris Johnson, at the heart of policymaking.