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BREAKING: Prime Minister Boris Johnson will chair the daily coronavirus briefing at 5pm amid growing calls for Dominic Cummings to resign. Live updates:

Most MPs 'think Dominic Cummings has to go'

Speaking to Sky News, Wellingborough MP Peter Bone said he knew parents who had found themselves in the same position as Mr Cummings"and they didn't shoot off" to other parts of the country."The vast majority of Conservative MPs think Dominic Cummings has to go.Just in - the daily press conference has been moved from 4pm to 5pm.One Tory MP who is not calling for Dominic Cummings to goThe prime minister has so far pledged his"full support" to his embattled chief aide.

 

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