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Grant Shapps – Dominic Cummings won’t resign

A media storm has been battering the government this morning after it emerged that the Prime Minister’s key adviser Dominic Cummings could have breached the government’s strict advice against travel during the lockdown. In March, Cummings and his family left London to self-isolate in his native Durham, in order to be near to close relatives should he and his wife be unable to look after their 4 year old son. Cummings and the government insist that he did nothing wrong. The Transport Secretary Grant Shapps defended Cummings’ decision and denied that his job was on the line:

GS: Mr Cummings decided that the best way to provide that security for [his son] was to be in a location where his sister and his niece could drop food off on the doorstep…

AM: Is he going to resign?

GS: No.