Calls grow for UK leader's aide to quit over lockdown trip
Source: AP
By JILL LAWLESS
LONDON (AP) Several lawmakers from Britains governing Conservative Party on Sunday joined opposition calls for Prime Minister Boris Johnsons top aide to be fired for allegedly violating the national coronavirus lockdown rules that he helped to create.
Johnson was due to address a government news conference amid growing pressure over his adviser Dominic Cummings, who drove 250 miles (400 kilometers) from London to his parents home in Durham, in northeast England, with his wife and son as he was coming down with COVID-19 at the end of March.
Britains lockdown, which began March 23, stipulated that people should remain at their primary residence, leaving only for essential local errands and exercise. Anyone with coronavirus symptoms was told to completely isolate themselves.
Dominic Cummings has a track record of believing that the rules dont apply to him and treating the scrutiny that should come to anyone in a position of authority with contempt, tweeted Conservative lawmaker Damian Collins. The government would be better without him.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson's senior aid Dominic Cummings leaves his home, in London, Sunday, May 24, 2020. Several lawmakers from Britains governing Conservative Party have joined opposition calls for Johnsons top aide to be fired for flouting lockdown rules. Dominic Cummings traveled 250 miles (400 kms) to his parents home with his wife and son as he was coming down with COVID-19 at the end of March. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
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Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)be following the U.S. example of when in power - do as you please. To HELL with rules.
Eid Ma Clack Shaw
(490 posts)A display of brazen dishonesty that even Trump might have had second-thoughts about putting on.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Having had COVID-19 and getting dangerously ill from it but I guess not.