 According to "Politico", Cummings played a role in the Conservative Party's victory in the election, after having passed the party's running of the election campaign to Isaac Levido.After the election, Cummings called for people interested in working in government to contact him through a private Gmail address.In a blog post, he said he wanted to recruit data scientists, software developers and economists to help improve the performance of government, making his own role "within a year largely redundant".