Dominic Cummings net worth 2021

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Dominic Mckenzie Cummings (born 25 November 1971) is a British political strategist who served as chief adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 24 July 2019 until 13 November 2020.

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. From 2015 to 2016, Cummings was director of Vote Leave, an organization that successfully executed the 2016 referendum campaign for Britain’s exit from the European Union.

After Johnson was appointed prime minister in July 2019, Cummings was appointed as Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister. Cummings had a contentious relationship with Chancellor Sajid Javid which culminated in Javid’s resignation in February 2020 after he refused to comply with Cummings’s request to dismiss his special advisers.

In May 2020, two leaders of opposition parties called for Cummings to resign after it was reported that he travelled to his parent’s farm in Durham during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. After he gave the reasons for his journey at a press conference in the garden of 10 and 11 Downing Street, Prime Minister Johnson supported his chief adviser by saying Cummings had acted “responsibly, legally and with integrity”. On 28 May 2020, Durham police said that they did not consider an offence was committed when Cummings travelled from London to Durham and that a minor breach might have occurred in travelling from there to Barnard Castle.

Net Worth:

Dominic Cummings earns three times the national average.

In December last year his salary was reported to be between £95,000 and £99,000.

His salary is entirely tax payer funded.

Dominic Cummings is the second highest-paid special adviser, after Lee Cain, the Downing Street Director of Communications.

Registered companies

Cummings is registered as a director of the non-trading company Klute Ltd, which formerly owned the Klute nightclub in Durham, and Dynamic Maps Ltd, an information technology consultancy. He runs another company called North Wood that “tries to solve problems” related to management, politics, and communications.

Education

He studied under eminent Oxford University historian Norman Stone and graduated with a ‘first’ – the top degree class awarded at British universities. He likes to pepper his eclectic writings with cultural references.

Career:

From 1994 to 1997 he was working on various projects in Russia. Then, he tried to set up an airline connecting Samara and Vienna which was unsuccessful. After that, he returned back to the UK. In 1999, he became the campaign director at Business for Sterling till 2002. After that, he became the Director of Strategy for the Conservative Party. He left the party in 8 months as he tagged the party leader Iain Duncan Smith as incompetent. From 2003, he worked with James Frayne and his campaign was successful. In 2014, Cummings left his job as he had plans of opening a free school as he has worked earlier with different charities.

In 2015, he was appointed as the Campaign Director of Vote Leave which he along with Matthew Elliott (CEO of Vote Leave) eventually left the board saying there is a lot of infighting. Since 2020, March as we all know the Covid-19 pandemic had hit the world. Cummings stated that the government only wants to protect the herd and maintain the economy even though some people die.

Political career

From 1999 to 2002, Cummings was campaign director at Business for Sterling, the campaign against the UK joining the Euro. He then became Director of Strategy for Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith for eight months in 2002, aiming to modernise the Conservative Party (of which he was not a member). He soon left in frustration at the introduction of what he saw as half-measures, labelling Duncan Smith “incompetent”.

The New Frontiers Foundation, a free-market libertarian and Eurosceptic think tank which grew out of Business For Sterling, was founded by Cummings in December 2003, with James Frayne as its co-founder. Cummings directed the group, and was described by Andrew Pierce in The Times as “a youthful, mercurial figure who has brought together a diverse coalition including Bob Geldof and the Labour MP Frank Field to oppose the single currency”. The Foundation published articles and papers which argued against the United Kingdom having ‘ever-closer union’ with the European Union at the cost of defence links with the United States.

Special Adviser to Michael Gove (2007–2014)

Cummings worked for Conservative politician Michael Gove in various roles in opposition and government from 2007 to 2014. From February 2011 to January 2014, he was special adviser (spad) and Chief of Staff to Gove at the Department for Education (DfE). His appointment was initially blocked by Andy Coulson from 2010 until January 2011. Cummings was later appointed in February 2011 after Coulson’s resignation. In this capacity, Cummings wrote an essay titled “Some thoughts on education and political priorities”, about transforming Britain into a “meritocratic technopolis”; the essay was described by Guardian journalist Patrick Wintour as “either mad, bad or brilliant – and probably a bit of all three”

Personal life


In December 2011, Cummings married Mary Wakefield, sister of his friend Jack Wakefield, former director of the Firtash Foundation. Mary Wakefield has worked at the weekly magazine The Spectator for decades, since Boris Johnson was editor, and is now commissioning editor. She is the daughter of Sir Humphry Wakefield, 2nd Baronet, of Chillingham Castle in Northumberland. Her mother is Katherine Wakefield, née Baring, elder daughter of Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale.

In 2016, they had a son, Alexander Cedd (named after an Anglo-Saxon saint).

Cummings is reportedly an admirer of Otto von Bismarck, Richard Feynman, Sun Tzu,and U.S. fighter pilot and military strategist John Boyd. Journalist Owen Bennett wrote that Cummings “is a Russophile, speaks Russian, and is passionately interested in Dostoyevsky”, while Patrick Wintour in The Guardian reported that “Anna Karenina, maths and Bismarck are his three obsessions.

Controversy:

On 27th March, Cummings had received a phone call from his wife saying she was sick. Although there were no major symptoms, she had caught the virus. They could not look after their 4-year-old child because of which they drove to their parents and this trip became a controversy as there were strict transportation rules. On 28th March, even he had caught on the virus. This was three days after Boris Johnson was tested positive. A controversy broke out when their trip to London was mentioned. After that, there had been several investigations and allegations by various newspapers and media. The investigation was made to find out any breach of law was made or not. On 25th May, Cummings held a conference saying he was fair and there were no regulations to state the situation he was in.

Property

Cummings lives in a £1.6 million townhouse in leafy Islington. Cummings got an extension designed by high-end architects Hamish & Lyons that features a “tapestry room”, along with a “formal living room” and reading room.

Cummings is married to Mary Wakefield, daughter of Sir Edward Humphry Tyrrel Wakefield, a baronet who owns Chillingham Castle in Northumberland.

His parents own a sprawling estate in Durham.

Trivia

  • He served as a campaign director at Business for Sterling, the campaign against the UK joining the Euro.
  • He is well known for being a special advisor to education secretary Michael Gove, from 2010 to 2014, from 2019 to 2020, being a chief advisor to prime minister Boris Johnson.
  • Cummings was portrayed in the 2019 Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War by Benedict Cumberbatch.
  • He is registered as a director of the non-trading company Klute Ltd and also owns another company named North Wood, a company that helps to solve problems related to management, politics, and communications.
  • He had worked for the New Schools Network charity that advises free schools. As he believes in charity, he served as a volunteer from June 2009 and as a paid freelancer from July to December 2010.

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