Dominating headlines in the UK this bank holiday weekend was the revelation that Dominic Cummings, chief advisor to PM Boris Johnson, had taken a 260-mile trip while his wife was displaying coronav…
Fellows politicians and journalists, as well as much of the public, were incensed by what appeared to be an overt breach of the country’s lockdown policy, with numerous calls for his resignation.
Looking to clarify events, the government aide stated that on March 27 he visited his wife, who was experiencing coronavirus symptoms, but then returned to work. This itself appears to be a breach of UK lockdown policy, which despite the recent relaxing of the restrictions still states: “If you are showing coronavirus symptoms, or if you or any of your household are self-isolating, you should stay at home – this is critical to staying safe and saving lives”.
“I don’t regret what I did,” Cummings told reporters. “I don’t think I am so different and that there is one rule for me and one rule for other people.” “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 stated. ”I cannot in good faith tell them they were all wrong and one senior adviser to the government was right.”
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