I have always had a grudging admiration for Cummings, while at the same time deploring his methods.
I was one of those who laughed at the "Moonshot" project, but in actual fact the LFT tests have been a great success.
And it's noticeable that since his departure from No 10 things have nosedived there - from an already low base, so quite an achievement.
I was never sure if the infamous No 10 Garden Show (back at a time when no one had anything better to do that watch such things) was something he really wanted to do or something forced on him by his boss (a bit like the news conference by the Salisbury GRU "tourists")
as a humiliation.