Introducing Dan Rosenfield, Boris Johnson’s organisation man
The prime minister’s new chief of staff is the antithesis of Dominic Cummings
THE FIRST months of Boris Johnson’s tenure as mayor of London, back in 2008, were, by common consent, a mess. Projects fizzled. Senior aides flounced. Chaos reigned. Then “bungling Boris”, as the newspapers dubbed him, appointed a talented chief of staff. The self-effacing but effective Simon Milton brought order to chaos and turned dither into decisiveness. Mr Johnson became Britain’s most popular Tory and was re-elected by a landslide.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Tidying Boris up”
Britain December 5th 2020
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