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Environment secretary, George Eustice, has said he does not know how many people were contacted as part of the new NHS Test and Trace scheme on Thursday.
He told BBC Breakfast: “I don’t know that figure, I don’t have that figure to hand.”
“I think all the Prime Minister was really trying to do is to protect people who are there to give a scientific opinion and a medical opinion from what has been a bit of a political row over the last week where they need not get involved.”
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Labour’s shadow home secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, has called on attorney general Suella Braverman to apologise for intervening in the Dominic Cummings case.
Asked whether Cummings broke the law during his trip to Durham during lockdown, Thomas-Symonds told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “The guidelines that were set up, he broke them.” He added:
“Look I can’t comment precisely on the communication between the Attorney General and Durham Police but what I can say for certain is this - the attorney general was wrong to be out making public statements about an individual case before even the police had made a public statement, and particularly given her role as superintendent of the Crown Prosecution Service.
“She shouldn’t have been commenting on an individual case in those circumstances, that is to misunderstand the role of the attorney general - to give unvarnished advice to Government without fear or favour and at the bare minimum she should apologise for that.” Continue reading...