Labour demands explanation after reports Dominic Cummings broke lockdown rules
The Labour Party has demanded a "very swift explanation" from Downing Street over reports that Boris Johnson's senior aide Dominic Cummings broke the Government's lockdown rules.
The Mirror reported that he was spotted at his parents' home in Durham when he was recovering from Covid-19, after travelling from his London home.
A Labour spokesman said: "If accurate, the Prime Minister's chief adviser appears to have breached the lockdown rules. The Government's guidance was very clear: stay at home and no non-essential travel.
"The British people do not expect there to be one rule for them and another rule for Dominic Cummings. Number 10 needs to provide a very swift explanation for his actions."
Acting Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has called for Dominic Cummings to resign if he has broken lockdown guidelines.
"If Dominic Cummings has broken the lockdown guidelines he will have to resign," Sir Davey tweeted.
If Dominic Cummings has broken the lockdown guidelines he will have to resign.
It's as simple as that.https://t.co/4kiFOImm6f— Ed Davey MP 🔶🇪🇺 #StayHomeSaveLives #ProtectNHS (@EdwardJDavey) May 22, 2020
Others on Twitter were quick to condemn Cummings.
So, Boris Johnson's right hand man Dominic Cummings broke lockdown to go to his parents' house 100s of miles away... AS HE SELF-ISOLATED WITH CORONAVIRUS SYMPTOMS.
Fire him tonight Prime Minister @BorisJohnson - or why should anybody heed your lockdown rules? pic.twitter.com/Ia91dKGLVf— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 22, 2020
I am shocked - SHOCKED - that Dominic Cummings, the man who oversaw the biggest electoral fraud in modern British history could be capable of thishttps://t.co/5ZeDDPPy5H
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) May 22, 2020
Interesting. Just trying to imagine the multiple orgasms flooding across Fleet St and Opposition MPs if I had done whatever the New Labour equivalent might have been of breaking a new law we had devised. Ps Neil Ferguson or Ex Scottish CMO on Marr please https://t.co/0nfCrkgnEY
— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) May 22, 2020
Dominic Cummings travelled approx 32,386 fridges from his home during lockdown and he must resign immediately.
— Kirsty Strickland (@KirstyStricklan) May 22, 2020
Hey @MattHancock, will you be urging the police to get involved as you did with Neil Ferguson? Or is it one rule for your enemies and another for your friends? https://t.co/SigiOWPX7m
— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) May 22, 2020
Tories: "Stay at home, do not travel, do not visit your family"
Dominic Cummings: pic.twitter.com/KctyemkTWw— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) May 22, 2020
Mr Cummings is said to have made his 250+ mile journey in late March.
On 3rd April, Matt Hancock told the country: ""I end with the advice we all know. This advice is not a request - it is an instruction.
Stay at home, protect lives and then you will be doing your part."— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) May 22, 2020
BREAKING: Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirms Dominic Cummings DID NOT break lockdown rules because those rules do not apply to his chief adviser, only poor people who are simultaneously expected to lockdown and go out in public, all the while hoping not to receive a £1000 fine
— Laura Kuenssberg @ CCHQ Propaganda Dept (@LKTranslator) May 22, 2020