Boris Johnson's top adviser wants to recruit "weirdos and misfits" as part of a drive to overhaul the way the U.K. government works.

In a 3,000-word blog post, Dominic Cummings said he's seeking an "unusual set of people with different skills and backgrounds" to work in Downing Street — and that he wants to be made "largely redundant" by the new intake. Hinting at a wider restructuring of the civil service, he said there are "profound problems at the core of how the British state makes decisions."

"It is obvious that improving government requires vast improvements in project management," Cummings said. "The first project will be improving the people and skills already here."