Dominic Cummings said he wanted to hire ‘weirdos’ and ‘misfits’ to improve Whitehall, but new adviser Andrew Sabisky (more on whether he’s actually an adviser shortly) isn’t so much a misfit in Westminster as he is a sore thumb, standing out for his views on eugenics, race and unplanned pregnancies. Today a No. 10 spokesperson refused 32 times to say whether Boris Johnson shares Sabisky’s views, and wouldn’t even comment on the conditions under which he had been employed.
Just to recap, Sabisky has suggested that the best way to avoid an ‘underclass’ is to legally enforce uptake of contraceptives, that black people naturally have a lower IQ than white people, and that ‘eugenics are about selecting “for” good things’. According to the FT’s Seb Payne, Sabisky is being employed not as a government special adviser but on contract as a forecaster on defence and other policy areas.
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