 Cummings was described as a "key figure" in the successful campaign against a North-East Regional Assembly in 2004, after which he moved to his father's farm in County Durham.In 2006 while in a position of what Andrew Neil called "overall responsibility" for the website of "The Spectator", Cummings republished a controversial cartoon depicting Muhammed with a bomb in his turban.This was the first time the cartoon had been published by any British news organisation and was removed after interventions from the publisher of "The Spectator".