Boris Johnson's controversial chief adviser Dominic Cummings has poured scorn on "educated Remainer campaigner types", accusing them of failing to read the mood of the country and adding that opponents of Brexit had "f***ed it up even more".

Mr Cummings, who is credited with masterminding the successful Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum, said that what happens in London is a "million miles away" from what is happening in the rest of the country. Following the Conservatives' latest election triumph, he said London-based politicians and journalists who continued to resist Britain's EU withdrawal should now reflect on their mistakes.

Political adviser Dominic Cummings arrives back at Downing Street on Friday
Political adviser Dominic Cummings arrives back at Downing Street on Friday

Asked if he could take any credit for the election result, Mr Cummings told the PA news agency: "No, not at all."

He added: "After the shock of the referendum, MPs and journalists should have taken a deep breath and had a lot of self-reflection of why they misunderstood what was going on in the country, but instead a lot of people just doubled down on their own ideas and f***** it up even more. That's why something like this happens against expectations.

"All these better-than-average-educated Remainer campaigner types who have waved around for eight weeks and didn't understand what was going on and didn't understand they were driving everyone mad."

Mr Cummings added: "Hopefully now they'll learn because it's not good for the country, the whole dynamic, to carry on. MPs need to reflect, the media needs to reflect and they need to realise that the conversations they have in London are a million miles away from reality."

He was talking after Boris Johnson told Remainers to "put a sock in the megaphone".

Standing before a cheering crowd in central London, Mr Johnson said: "We did it - we pulled it off, didn't we? We broke the gridlock, we ended the deadlock, we smashed the road block. I want to congratulate absolutely everybody involved in securing the biggest Conservative majority since the 1980s."