UK coronavirus live Tory MP Steve Baker calls for Dominic Cummings to go
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Grant Shapps to defend No 10 advisor on Sunday morning politics shows amid revelations of further breaches of lockdown rules
New witnesses cast doubt on Dominic Cummings’s lockdown claims
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The Conservative MP Simon Hoare has joined Steve Baker in calling for Cummings’ resignation.
With the damage Mr Cummings is doing to the Government’s reputation he must consider his position. Lockdown has had its challenges for everyone. It’s his cavalier “I don’t care; I’m cleverer than you” tone that infuriates people. He is now wounding the PM/Govt & I don’t like that
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“I don’t have all the times and dates for you but I understand he will have travelled up there towards the end of March and stayed there, remained there for 14 days, didn’t leave the property and isolation, as per the rules and guidance,” Shapps told Ridge, adding he was sure Cummings obeyed social distancing rules.
He said: “You’ll appreciate I wasn’t with them so I can’t tell you exactly what that journey was like, but what I do know is that Dominic Cummings - I saw a clip yesterday of him asking journalists to be spaced two metres apart, so I know he is a stickler for those rules about what to do to make sure you are following the two-metre rule and the like, so I’m sure that they took all the necessary precautions.” Continue reading...
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