There’s nothing like a major political scandal to deliver TV ratings, and so it proved in the U.K. this bank holiday weekend. Despite it being the hottest day of the year, a reported 3.7 million vi…
’s chief advisor, defend his decision to make a 260-mile trip while the country was in lockdown. Cummings was recently portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch in the Channel 4/HBO drama “Brexit: The Uncivil War.”
Cummings — who masterminded the successful Brexit campaign ahead of the U.K.’s referendum on E.U. membership — said he believed he had acted “reasonably” and within the law. Cummings said he and his family stayed at a cottage on his parents’ farm in County Durham, where he then developed COVID-19 symptoms on 28 March.
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