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Boris Johnson's strategy guru Dominic Cummings shouted at Jeremy Corbyn in a Parliament corridor after the PM's humiliating Commons defeat, it has been claimed.

The senior aide reportedly goaded the Labour leader into taking Johnson's bait and voting for an election on his terms.

Johnson has repeatedly said he does not want a general election.

But Cummings is said to have shouted: "Come on Jeremy let’s do this election, don’t be scared."

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A tweet describing the incident was later deleted but its author, journalist Tim Shipman, insisted it was correct.

Labour Shadow Cabinet minister Cat Smith said: "As one of several shadow cabinet members stood right next to Jeremy (who was on the phone at the time).

"I just thought there was some loud bloke who stunk of booze yelling at us."

The oddball strategist had previously been seen conspicuously prowling the corridors of the Commons press gallery, clutching a glass of red wine.

And he unexpectedly attended a briefing of Lobby journalists earlier in the evening.

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Dominic Cummings was once described as a “career psychopath” by David Cameron.

In the years since the Brexit vote, he’s been held in contempt of Parliament for snubbing an inquiry, has posted a number of several-thousand-word blog posts on constitutional issues, and has described the hard Brexit European Research Group as a “metastasising tumour.”

He was one of the architects of the official Vote Leave campaign, serving as its campaign director, during the EU referendum in 2016.

He is said to have been a mastermind behind Vote Leave's most controversial messages, including the bus that falsely claimed we send £350million a week to the EU and messages misleadingly claiming Turkey was joining the EU.

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He branded Tory Brexiteers in the ERG "useful idiots", called top Tory David Davis "thick as mince", claimed some Tory Brexiteers spent the referendum "chasing girls" and other Brexiteer economists were "charlatans".

Earlier this year he was found to be in contempt of Parliament for refusing to give evidence to a committee of MPs investigating "fake news".