London — The chief negotiators of the UK and EU may have hatched a plan to give a post-Brexit trade deal one last shot, but one man could yet stand in their way.

Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s powerful chief adviser, has largely been absent from discussions in Downing Street about Brexit since the Conservative Party’s election victory in December as the government grappled with the coronavirus and its overhaul of the public service. Yet his influence looms large...

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