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Feuding in Downing Street as UK faces Covid, Brexit challenges
Boris Johnson faces the challenges of soaring virus deaths and looming Brexit talks, two of his closest aides have resigned amid reports of bitter infighting.The British prime minister's top aide and the organiser of the "Vote Leave" campaign, Dominic Cummings, walked out of Downing Street on Friday holding a cardboard box.This came a day after the resignation of Johnson's communications director Lee Cain, a close Cummings ally who also worked on the "Leave" side of the 2016 referendum.While Cain was little-known to the British public, Cummings became massively unpopular in May when he failed to apologise for violating the government's strict coronavirus lockdown measures with lengthy road trips, while Johnson took his side.Cummings had