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Boris Johnson appoints new chief of staff after Cummings exit | Boris Johnson appoints new chief of staff after Cummings exit |
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Boris Johnson has appointed a new chief of staff, Downing Street has announced. | Boris Johnson has appointed a new chief of staff, Downing Street has announced. |
Dan Rosenfield's appointment follows a period of upheaval which saw the prime minister's senior aides Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain resign. | Dan Rosenfield's appointment follows a period of upheaval which saw the prime minister's senior aides Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain resign. |
Mr Rosenfield has previously worked as a Treasury civil servant under Labour chancellor Alistair Darling and his Tory successor George Osborne. | Mr Rosenfield has previously worked as a Treasury civil servant under Labour chancellor Alistair Darling and his Tory successor George Osborne. |
He will begin work at Downing Street on 7 December. | He will begin work at Downing Street on 7 December. |
The current acting chief of staff Lord Udny-Lister will stay in the role until 1 January when Mr Rosenfield will take over. | |
Dominic Cummings leaves No 10 'to clear the air' | |
Mr Rosenfield joins No 10 from Hakluyt, a strategic advisory firm. | |
He has also previously worked at Bank of America as a managing director and is chairman of the humanitarian agency World Jewish Relief. | |
The chief of staff role had originally been offered to Mr Cain, however some MPs and ministers objected to the appointment. | |
And following a power struggle inside No 10 both Mr Cain and his ally Mr Cummings stepped down from their roles. | |
In an interview last year with the Jewish Telegraph, Mr Rosenfield describes Judaism as being "pretty central" to his life and says his local synagogue was his "second home". | |
He also recalls working in the Treasury during the 2008 financial crisis. "It became very clear that we were dealing with some quite fundamentally difficult challenges," he said. | |
His previous employers Hakluyt are a low-profile consultancy firm with offices in Mayfair, central London, as well as cities including New York, Mumbai, Singapore, and Tokyo. | |
It is chaired by the Conservative peer Lord Deighton - who was recently given a role co-ordinating the drive to scale up UK manufacturing of personal protective equipment (PPE). |