Before the reshuffle Dominic Cummings told ministerial aides: “I’ll see some of you next week”

Dominic Cummings was confronted over his “unkindness” at last night’s weekly meeting of ministerial aides.

Boris Johnson’s senior adviser had appalled some at last week’s gathering, held before the reshuffle, by remarking at the end: “I’ll see some of you next week.”

It is claimed that he “picked on” aides to Theresa Villiers and Andrea Leadsom, who were both sacked on Thursday, during that meeting by asking them “really detailed questions he knew they wouldn’t be able to answer”.

He was challenged last night by Lynn Davidson, a former Sun journalist who is media adviser to Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, according to one witness who said that she took Mr Cummings to task for his behaviour.

It is understood that she told Mr Cummings