UK PM Johnson faces growing rebellion over aide’s lockdown trip | Malay Mail

Dominic Cummings, special adviser to Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, answers questions from the media after making a statement at 10 Downing Street, London, Britain May 25, 2020. — Jonathan Brady/pool pic via Reuters

“I have constituents who didn’t get to say goodbye to loved ones; families who could not mourn together; people who didn’t visit sick relatives because they followed the guidance of the government,” Ross said in a statement. He held a press conference Monday to justify driving his wife and young son on a 425-kilometre trip from London to Durham in northeast England in late March during the height of the coronavirus crisis.

The Brexit campaign mastermind, a divisive figure within British politics, said he wanted to leave his four-year-old son at his parents’ house in case both he and his wife became incapacitated.Health Secretary Matt Hancock was the latest minister to defend Cummings at the daily Downing Street briefing, saying “what he did was within the guidelines”.

The priest, Martin Poole, later told Sky News he would like to see those in government “treated in the same way as everybody else”.But Jackson Carlaw, the leader of the Conservatives in Scotland, said his most trusted adviser should consider quitting. The main opposition Labour party has stopped short of backing that call but demanded an internal government inquiry.Britain has been one of the worst-hit countries by the pandemic, with more than 46,000 deaths attributed to Covid-19 by mid-May, according to official statistics released yesterday.

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