Here are two beliefs Dominic Cummings holds about Brexit. One: He believes it will help us to phone up Jeff Bezos and partner with him on creating a base on the moon, which will in turn enable us to industrialise space.

Two: He believes it can be delivered by using the same models of government that will inevitably be required to avoid an apocalypse brought on by either nuclear war or an artificial intelligence (AI) that decides to destroy the human race.

These two statements aren’t throwaway examples of his most outlandish claims. They’re significant elements of what Cummings, the prime minister’s most senior adviser, thinks about Brexit, as laid out in his blogs.

He has been publishing his thoughts online for the best part of half a decade. Whenever a new blog appeared on his site, Westminster reporters would skim through the thousands of words and focus on his attacks on Brexiteers, Remain campaigners, Tory MPs, and others. But now that Cummings is in Downing Street, his epic writings have become key source material for anyone trying to decipher how he really sees the future of Britain and Europe.

And the more one reads the blogs, the more one can see the outline of a Brexit plan for the Boris Johnson administration. They don’t just explain why Cummings thinks no deal is an option — they explain how and why he thinks Whitehall should actively work towards it.

Cummings’ influence on the machinery of government is already taking hold. A Whitehall insider told BuzzFeed News that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which is on the front lines of no-deal planning, had even begun implementing initiatives similar to the “systems approach to delivery” he blogged about at great length before he arrived in Number 10.

The phrase means that rather than being considered in isolation, issues are considered in terms of how they connect. At Defra, rural land use, food, air quality, marine, and resources and waste are being examined to see how they affect one another.