UK's Johnson resists calls to sack top adviser over 400 km drive

Boris Johnson’s special adviser Dominic Cummings travelled to Durham when a strict lockdown was in place.

Johnson’s office said Cummings made the journey to ensure his 4-year-old son could be properly cared for as his wife was ill with Covid-19 and there was a “high likelihood” that Cummings would himself become unwell. “You guys are probably all about as right about that as you were about Brexit: do you remember how right you all were about that?” Cummings said.“I can tell you that the PM provides Mr Cummings with his full support,” Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told reporters, adding that he did not know when the prime minister found out about the journey.

“We will not waste our time answering a stream of false allegations about Mr Cummings from campaigning newspapers.”But opposition parties called for Johnson to sack Cummings and Labour called on the country’s most senior civil servant, Mark Sedwill, to open an investigation into the journey. Shortly after Johnson announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19, Cummings sprinted out of Downing Street on March 27 and developed symptoms on the weekend of March 28-29.

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