By Sascha O’Sullivan ARIA, the government sponsored independent body is designed to fund new scientific and innovation projects. It might the last hangover of Dominic Cummings in Downing Street, writes Eliot Wilson Dominic Cummings may have left Downing Street in 2021, but his shadow in politics is long. Last week, the research and innovation minister, George Freeman, announced the formal creation of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), an independent, government-sponsored body designed to fund high-risk, high-reward scientific research. It was one of the pet projects of Boris Jo…