Mr Cummings told MPs today he was 'extremely sorry' and that 'that whole episode was definitely a major disaster for the Government and for the Covid policy', but said there were security issues he had not previously revealed. The decision saw the Prime Minister's popularity with the public plummet, especially after his aide used the media appearance to deny he had done anything wrong. The Barnard Castle trip, during which Mr Cummings risked passing the infection to others, came at a time when Mr Johnson was telling 66million Britons not to leave home unless it was absolutely essential.īut Mr Johnson stood by him, despite widespread calls for Mr Cummings to be fired and prosecuted.
The Prime Minister refused to sack his then Svengali despite the trip causing irreparable damage to the public's trust in Government. He said he left out a 'crucial part' of his explanation as to why he broke lockdown rules and travelled to County Durham when he held a press conference in Downing Street's rose garden last year. I wish I'd never heard of Barnard Castle. 'I can completely understand why people think it's weird.
'If I were going to come up with a story I'd have come up with a hell of a better one than didn't seem crazy at the time,' Mr Cummings said. Health committee chairman Jeremy Hunt asked if he had been telling the truth at a Downing Street press conference last spring where he claimed he took his family on a 30-mile journey he took to the town of Barnard Castle to 'test his eyesight' before returning to London. He also revealed he even wrote a will at one point because he feared he might die from Covid while in Durham. He said it had been a 'terrible mistake' not to be more honest at the time, as he faced a grilling from MPs on the Commons' health and science committees this afternoon.
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He said that people had gathered outside the family home in a residential street and threatened to break in.Īddressing MPs today he said he had the Prime Minister's approval to make the trip and admitted he had not told the full truth when he had explained himself at a Downing Street press conference a year ago. The former senior advisor said that he took his wife Mary and their young son north to his family in March last year - while ill with Covid - after concerns about their security at their home in the capital. Dominic Cummings made a highly controversial trip from London to Durham during the first lockdown because of threats made against his family, he claimed today.
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