Dominic Cummings breaks silence after secret dinner with Nigel Farage

Cummings said the focus had been ‘a broken Whitehall, a disgraceful and shattered Tory party clogging up the party system, how to shake it all up most effectively’. Photograph: James Manning/PA

Civil servants may wish to dust off their CVs. Members of parliament, brace, brace, brace. Dominic Cummings – the political weather-maker behind the tide that delivered Brexit and raised and drowned Boris Johnson – is eyeing up a Westminster come back, of sorts.

“I might spend more time on SW1 depending how things play out,” Cummings told the Guardian after speculation about his intentions in the Westminster postcode, “but I do not want a job there. My efforts will only be helping people of any party pushing in what I consider a good direction, I’m happy living away from SW1 and SW1 for sure feels the same about me.”