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.
Dominic Cumming faces fresh calls to resign after his press conference on Monday raised more questions about his breaches of lockdown than it answered.
The Conservatives have been criticised for pushing out fake news to party supporters in the press, after a report of a Labour protester punching one of Matt Hancock’s advisers in the face has proved entirely false.
Four examples of outright lying from the new Conservative Party leader.
The £350m a week figure the Leave campaign fictitiously claimed the UK sends the European Union was a “gross underestimate”, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has falsely asserted.