The new PM’s father Stanley

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BREXIT WORLD MEETS TRUMP WORLD: Brexit Party chief Nigel Farage has linked up with Pro-Trump Americans to form World4Brexit, a new lobbying group aiming to raise money for Britain’s divorce from the EU, the Financial Times’ Jim Pickard and Gillian Tett report.

EMBARRASSING DAD:had a good crack at creating maximum embarrassment for his son just two days into his new job. Johnson’s attack on opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn for appearing on Iranian state TV somewhat backfired when reports emerged Johnson Senior had been doing exactly that.

There’s more: Stanley did a bit of policy freelancing while he was there, telling Press TV his son could resolve the U.K.’s tanker dispute with Iran “easy peasy” by swapping Grace 1, the Iranian ship telegram data seized off Gibraltar with the U.K.’s Stena Impero, which was seized by Iran last Friday. The Mirror has a write up.

ICYMI: James Graham, the playwright who met and interviewed Johnson’s de-facto chief of staff Dominic Cummings, spoke to the BBC’s Emma Barnett yesterday. Cummings may have designed the speed and extent of the Cabinet reshuffle to “disorientate all the commentators and the strategists,” basing it on the military strategy known as the “OODA Loop,” Graham thought.

Whitehall braced for impact: Graham thought Cummings had big plans for a Whitehall revolution. “His ambitions for how government should run is a complete systems overhaul. He wants to completely revolutionize and transform Whitehall. He doesn’t think the civil service is fit for purpose and wants to burn it down and rebuild it from the ground up, using all kinds of quite high-minded systems analysis and statistics and data-driven philosophies,” he said.