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Analysis: with key aides on the way out, the PM will find ambitious professionals are reluctant to take a risk on his reignAfter a slew of close loyalists followed Dominic Cummings out the door in November 2020, Boris Johnson had a tough task appointing a new chief of staff and director of communications.He opted to promote his well-connected press secretary, Jack Doyle, and hire an outsider, Dan Rosenfield. Sarah Sands, a former editor of the Evening Standard and Radio 4’s Today programme and Peter Dominiczak, a former political editor of the Daily Telegraph, were said to have turned the jobs down. Continue reading...