Exclusive: Alex Aiken to leave GCS this autumn after surviving PM’s cull last year

Alex Aiken, executive director of the Government Communication Service (GCS), will leave in the autumn amid claims by senior government comms sources that he 'survived being pushed out' by Boris Johnson last autumn during a wider cull of Civil Service staff. This included the exit of the Prime Minister's most senior adviser, Dominic Cummings, and his director of comms, Lee Cain.