The departure of Dominic Cummings from Downing Street is not a sign of Britain softening its position in Brexit talks, the Government has insisted.
Mr Johnson's chief aide, Mr Cummings will leave his role by the end of the year, after Downing Street became gripped by a bitter power struggle.
The controversial Vote Leave veteran told the BBC that “rumours of me threatening to resign are invented”, after suggestions he was preparing to quit alongside communications director Lee Cain.
But he said his “position hasn’t changed since my January blog” when he wrote that he hoped to make himself “largely redundant” by the end of 2020.
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