Pay of Boris Johnson's senior advisers including Dominic Cummings announced

Boris Johnson’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings is raking just under £100k for his role in Number 10.

Cummings entered Downing Street hailed as the mastermind of the ­victorious Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 EU referendum.

Mr Cummings – who was played by Benedict Cumberbatch in Channel 4’s referendum drama Brexit: The Uncivil War earlier this year – is credited with the “Take Back Control” slogan and the bus vowing to give “£350million a week to the NHS”.

The campaign group had a policy of not paying anyone more than £100,000 – and Mr Cummings seems to be keeping to that.

But the aide’s salary is dwarfed by the amount taken home by the PM’s head of comms.

Lee Cain – a former journalist who once played the role of the Mirror chicken – earns between £140,000 and £145,000.

The government special adviser costs for the financial year 1 April 2018 – 31 March 2019 were £9.6 million – up from £8.9m the previous year.

The figures were announced as part of a regular publication of government data.

It came as MPs voted overwhelmingly to back the Government’s Brexit deal.

The Commons voted 358 to 234 – a majority of 124 votes – to approve Boris Johnson ’s Withdrawal Agreement Bill – paving the way for the UK to quit the bloc on January 31.

Six Labour MPs rebelled against the party whip in order to vote with the Government on the Brexit bill – Sarah Champion, Rosie Cooper, Jon Cruddas, Emma Lewell-Buck, Grahame Morris and Toby Perkins.

32 Labour MPs abstained. There were no Tory rebels on the vote.

But the Prime Minister faced a furious backlash after watering down a legal requirement to accept unaccompanied child refugees in the EU who have a relative in the UK.

Three-and-a-half years after the 2016 Brexit referendum – and after three deadlines for leaving were missed – MPs spent five hours debating the departure pact on Friday.

The PM said the Bill “must not be seen as a victory for one party over another, or one faction over another”.

He added: “This is the time when we move on and discard the old labels of Leave and Remain.”