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His comments are seen as a swipe at Boris Johnson’s fiancee Carrie Symonds – thought to have engineered his departure from his post as the PM’s chief adviser.

Mr Johnson and Ms Symonds acquired their rescue dog, Dilyn, in a blaze of publicity after last year’s election.

Citing an incident in 1983 when a Soviet officer potentially averted a nuclear war when he ignored a warning of a US attack because he believed, correctly, that it was false, Mr Cummings wrote: “We have fluked many similar episodes.”

He added: “Issues of existential importance are largely ignored and our political systems incentivise politicians to focus more on Twitter and gossip column stories about their dogs.”

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