PM's adviser quits role after revolt by Carrie Symonds Camilla Tominey: How row laid bare civil war at No 10 What does the Chief of Staff do - and who might get the job now? Coronavirus latest news: Follow updates in our live blog Birthday sale: £1 a week for 6 months Conservative MPs have urged Boris Johnson to bring in grown ups to Number 10 in a bid to rescue the "dysfunctional" dynamic, as Dominic Cummings clings onto his job. The chief adviser is reported to have threatened to quit in solidarity with Lee Cain, Downing Street's director of communications, who sensationally announced he was resigning just hours after being tipped for a promotion to the Prime Minister's chief of staff. However sources suggested he was staying put, alongside Sir David Frost, Mr Johnson's Brexit negotiator. Sir Charles Walker, vice chair of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers, told Radio 4's Today programme there had been "unhappiness about the No 10 operation for some time", with MPs feeling "excluded from the decision-making process". But there was "a real opportunity for the chief of staff role to be filled by someone with good links with Conservative party and parliament" now, Sir Charles said. He tipped Andrew Feldman, who served as party chairman under David Cameron, and David Canzini, who ran Mr Johnson's leadership bid last summer, as names that would go down well with MPs. "Both would have the trust of the party but also the ear of the Prime Minister," he said. Follow the latest news below.
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