Exclusive: Chancellor Sajid Javid’s Media Adviser ‘Fired’ By Downing Street

Chancellor Sajid Javid’s media adviser been escorted out of Downing St after a meeting with the prime minister’s top strategist where she appears to have been fired.

A source said Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s leading aide, had invited her for a meeting in No.10.

After an exchange with Cummings, she was then told she was being fired and all her government security passes were confiscated, it is claimed

Following the meeting she was told to leave the building. A police officer escorted her out, HuffPost UK understands.

HuffPost UK attempted to contact the adviser but she was unavailable.

Within days of his appointment as the PM’s senior adviser, Cummings was given a key role in overseeing all special advisers centrally, rather than through their departments.

Special advisers are temporary civil servants paid for by the taxpayer during their employment and are appointed by ministers.

According to the formal code of conduct for special advisers, responsibility for their management and conduct, including discipline, “rests with the minister who made the appointment”.

Usually, any alleged misconduct would be referred to the Cabinet Office and its propriety and ethics director general, currently Helen McNamara.

The code states that while it is the minister’s responsibility to oversee their conduct “it is, of course, also open to the prime minister to terminate employment by withdrawing her consent to an individual appointment at any time”.