Boris Johnson’s chief aide Dominic Cummings’ trip to Barnard Castle “might have been minor breach” of lockdown rules, Durham Police has said, contradicting days of lies and half-truths by the Prime Minister and his cabinet.
The government has launched a test and trace scheme to try and bring the outbreak under control, but tracers are concerned that the public will not follow government isolation orders after Dominic Cummings broke lockdown rules in March and April.
Dominic Cumming faces fresh calls to resign after his press conference on Monday raised more questions about his breaches of lockdown than it answered.
Dominic Cummings has said he has ‘no regrets’ about the way he acted by breaching lock-down rules by driving over 250 miles from his home in London to his parents’ property near Durham.
The Prime Minister’s chief aide Dominic Cummings and his wife, Mary Wakefield, tried to cover up travelling over 250 miles in direct contravention of the lockdown rules in late March in two articles for the Spectator magazine.