Ms Bingham was criticised for the lavish appointment when the civil service has hundreds of its own press officers

A director of the PR firm appointed by the Government’s vaccine taskforce chief has been revealed as a business associate of Dominic Cummings ’ father-in-law.

According to Companies House, Angus Collingwood Cameron is director of Admiral Public Relations which was paid £670,000 of taxpayers’ cash by the task force run by government vaccine Tsar Kate Bingham.

He has also been a director since 2004 of the Chillingham Castle country estate owned by Humphry Wakefield, the father-in-law of the PM’s controversial top aide.