Dominic Cummings attempts career reboot as political speaker

Ex-adviser to Boris Johnson holds forth about his hero Otto von Bismarck at Orwell Festival of Political Writing

More than a year since walking out of Downing Street clutching his possessions in a cardboard box, Dominic Cummings has emerged in public again, recasting himself as a political speaker,

From No 10 to a lecture hall in the Darwin Building at University College London, the man who was once Boris Johnson's senior adviser and de facto chief of staff, appeared on Thursday night in a panel discussion at the Orwell festival of political writing.