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As Dominic Cummings intensifies his plans to launch a new political party to take on Britain’s political establishment, he has dropped important new clues about the thinking behind it.
I It has been learned that the former chief adviser at No. 10 Downing Street has set up a company called People’s Action Limited. Is this the real title of what he’s been calling the “Startup Party”?
If so, that could be sending a big signal of what’s to come. This name will already be familiar to anyone familiar with Singapore, which is famous for its rapid economic development and strict authoritarian approach to law and order. The original People’s Action Party has ruled the East Asian city-state continuously since independence 59 years ago.
Mr Cummings has already professed to be a big fan of Lee Kuan Yew, the party’s co-founder and Singapore’s first prime minister, and has written about him numerous times on his blog and social media.
“Relying on normal politics to get rid of the right people has failed, he said.” [Mr Yew] “We have made a shift to aggressively hiring top talent,” Cummings said. Posts for December 2021 “He concluded that this was the most important element in Singapore’s transformation.”
The 52-year-old revealed in his exclusive that he follows the same idea. I He said in an interview earlier this month that he plans to make his party “friendly to all the great talent in this country, the people who build things in the private and public sectors.”
Mr Cummings also said his new party could “replace” the defeated Conservative Party after the next election, with a “relentless focus on the electorate rather than Westminster and the old media” and a “relentless focus on most people in the country”. He also said that he believed that the people would face a terrible situation. Behind his suggestion.
The new company’s existence comes after reports earlier this month that he was using a series of focus groups around the country to get people’s opinions on the party’s potential.
People’s Action Ltd. Register at the Corporate Hall September 24th of last year. The company lists Mr Cummings as its sole director and has an office building in a business park in Durham as its registered address.
If, as his book suggests, the party name reflects his ideas about how the party should be run, and it stays on track, how would the party develop?
Looks like the People’s Action MPs need to muster up some steam. “Members’ salaries should scale in line with productivity and private sector salaries,” he wrote in November 2021. No, LKY [Mr Yew] I did it in Singapore.we have to learn”
More controversially, his blog suggests that Singapore and Mr Yu may have inspired Mr Cummings’ human rights views. “Despite Western pressure, LKY remained strong in imprisoning dangerous communists,” he wrote in August 2021.
“When a nation faces an existential crisis, responsible leaders do not abide by student union rules or human rights laws. One of the biggest signs of how anti-serious our politics is is the way we allow judicial review to interact with human rights law. ”
In his blog, Mr Cummings said he believed the party should be based outside London and that his original plan was to cover Downing Street as well as the Conservative Party.
“Had the Tory takeover by the Leave vote continued, I would have shut down CCHQ.” [Conservative Campaign Headquarters] “We are relaunching a brand new organization in London and a brand new organization in the Midlands,” he wrote in August 2021. “‘Live in the village, don’t attack the village’. Instead of shouting to experts over lunch in Westminster, staff will be building organized networks in key places.”
And last month, he posted a tweet suggesting: His new party will have a “northern headquarters.”
Some commentators say skeptical As for the chances of things going the way Cummings wants them to. I Published.
However, his only other entry into Companies House is a reminder of his earlier success as a political activist. It records his position as founding director of Vote Leave.
Mr. Cummings has been contacted for comment.