• United Kingdom.Boris Johnson goes on the offensive after his worrying fall in the polls

'Prime Minister' Boris Johnson has forced the resignation of Mark Sedwill as Cabinet Secretary and National Security Adviser, in what he interprets as the 'revenge' of his strategist Dominic Cummings in his open war against senior government officials British.

The current chief Brexit negotiator, David Frost, will relieve him as Security advisor and double, while the position as Cabinet secretary will be filled by Simon Case.

Mark Sedwill, 55, was the highest-ranking senior official within the cabinet and had been appointed in 2017 by Theresa May. His future had been in the offing since Dominic Cummings promised to end the "Kafkaesque" atmosphere in the British high civil service in January and started a "purge" in all ministerial departments.

His first objective was the team of advisers to the then Secretary of the Treasury, Sajid Javid, who ended up presenting his resignation and publicly denouncing the excesses of Cummings. On February 20, it was the turn of the "permanent" Secretary of the Interior, Philip Rutnam, confronted with the head of the department Priti Patel.

The pandemic was a truce, but Cummings has returned to the fray once entrenched by Johnson, who did not yield to pressure to force his resignation after violating pandemic confinement with the 400km family trip from London to Durham.

His personal 'vendetta' after the media harassment began to smell since last week, when he predicted that there would soon be a "heavy rain". Cummings has been accused by officials of creating a "poisonous" atmosphere in Whitehall , the complex of ministerial departments that surrounds Downing Street.

"Corrosive and Cowardly Tactics"

Johnson thanked Sedwill for "outstanding service" and has asked him to lead a new economic security group in the G-7.

In his resignation letter, Sedwill appreciates the trust placed in him "in very difficult times and in the service of seven different Prime Ministers." Her relations with the 'premier' had been quite tense at the critical moments of the pandemic . Sedwill himself also contracted the coronavirus, as did Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings, accused of being the true architect of his resignation.

Dave Penman, head of the FDA officials union, regretted Sedwill's departure and predicted that the government "will be weaker after its departure . " Penman accused Downing Street of having orchestrated for months a campaign against the senior official, a former diplomat and arms inspector using "corrosive and cowardly tactics."

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