After watching the full six minutes of his perambulatory WTFgasm with Sky News’s Lewis Goodall, it is hard to decide. The Tories have always lived by one rule for us working-class scum and another rule for the rich and powerful. "He clearly broke the rules," she said. Then, somewhere, the universe cackles in response and spits out some more evil nonsense. It reveals the worst of his elitist arrogance. This much. ... BBC Newsnight's policy editor Lewis Goodall tweeted that the "crux of the issue" is … "The prime minister has failed to act in the national interest. Opposition leaders still intend to push for his departure.The man respected by Mr Johnson for judging the public mood has made himself famous for falling foul of that opinion.His explanations may ease for some of the anger. "Many people, including some Conservative MPs, have called for Mr Cummings to be sacked for making his car journey just four days after the lockdown started, while Labour said he had "clearly broken the rules".But Mr Cummings told reporters: "I don't think I am so different and that there is one rule for me and one rule for other people. Dominic Cummings' rose garden confessional was a bold move designed to take the drama out of a crisis.But giving detailed answers to why he at the very least broke the spirit of the lockdown rules does not answer the fundamental question now - is his continued presence in Downing Street more of a hindrance than a help to Boris Johnson?Tempers may have cooled slightly on the Conservative backbenches, but there are still calls for him to go, both private and public.And some senior Conservative MPs are still aghast at how much political capital the prime minister has burned through to keep Mr Cummings at his side.
Case in point: One of the British PM’s most trusted advisors is Dominic Cummings, a political strategist who was director of the Vote Leave campaign during the Brexit referendum and a man who is typically known for being a conniving, bigoted, bullying puppet master to the most abhorrent aspects of the current Tory nightmare. He had gone to hospital by ambulance but had not tested positive for coronavirus, and Mr Cummings had picked him up by car after an overnight stay because there were "no taxis".Asked about his trip to the tourist hotspot of Barnard Castle on 12 April, which included walking "10 to 15 metres from the car to the riverbank", he replied: "I wasn't sightseeing. "We agreed that we should go for a short drive to see if I could drive safely. She did not want to risk a nearly 300-mile drive with our child, given how ill I had been. "A spokesman for the Labour Party added those hoping for an apology had "got none".Acting Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey urged Mr Johnson to sack Mr Cummings, adding: "His refusal to have the decency to apologise is an insult to us all.
Media caption Dominic Cummings' full statement on lockdown row. Every now and then, as this pandemic continues to engulf every aspect of our lives, I think, rather naively, that things maybe can’t get any worse. But in Westminster and beyond, it will not disappear overnight.And when the prime minister is interrogated by senior MPs on Wednesday his decisions over Dominic Cummings will surely be on the list.He said his sister and his nieces, who live on his parents' land, had offered to look after his four-year-old son if necessary.Mr Cummings himself became ill the day after arriving in County Durham, with symptoms including a headache and fever.He said he had isolated in a cottage around 50 metres from his parents' home but did not have any contact with the couple, in their 70s, other than shouted conversations.He added that, while he had not informed the prime minister - who himself caught coronavirus - before he drove north: "I did actually speak to him later but neither of us can remember what was said because we were both in pretty bad shape. "When he found out his wife was ill on 27 March and after "briefly telling some officials in Number 10 what happened", Mr Cummings said he "immediately left the building, ran to my car and drove home".After a couple of hours she "felt a bit better", he said, and "there were many critical things at work, and she urged me to return in the afternoon and I did".Mr Cummings said he realised the family would have been left without childcare in London if, like his wife, he had fallen ill, so they decided to drive to County Durham that evening.BBC Newsnight's policy editor Lewis Goodall tweeted that the "crux of the issue" is whether he "abused" the guidelines by doing so. One of the British PM’s most trusted advisors is Dominic Cummings, a political strategist who was director of the Vote Leave campaign during the Brexit referendum and a man who is typically known for being a conniving, bigoted, bullying puppet master … He should have never allowed this situation with a member of his staff. Shock horror, Britain isn’t responding to this in the way that the government was hoping for. Also, This is also the man who was reportedly the leading force behind the British government’s initial COVID-19 policy of herd immunity. So Boris must’ve done something worse that putting his penis inside a pig’s head, because this level of ride or die that he’s doing for Dominic Cummings is unlike anything mentioned in 50 Cent’s 21 questions.We thought the best person to reassure everyone that Dominic Cummings was telling the truth would be Gavin Williamson, the man sacked for leaking security information then lying about it.If there's a bright side we can take from this, it's that we now have a Prime minister called BJ that is embroiled in How much does a tory have to fuck up to lose the Daily Mail?
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