This isn’t the end for Dominic Cummings’ Whitehall shake-up

There has been no sign of contrition from Downing Street as Andrew Sabisky steps down, writes political editor Andrew Woodcock

The hasty resignation of self-styled superforecaster Andrew Sabisky was not in Dominic Cummings’s plans when he sent out his call for “weirdos and misfits” to join him in shaking up Whitehall.

Cummings’ attempt to bypass the standard civil service recruitment procedures appears to have fallen at the first hurdle, as Sabisky’s bizarre views on race and eugenics provoked a firestorm which he proved unable to withstand.

But it would be wrong to assume that the loss of this recruit – apparently hired as a “contractor” to work on an as-yet-unnamed project – means the end of efforts by Boris Johnson’s top adviser to reshape the way government operates.