UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson refuses to fire his chief adviser over reported lockdown breach despite mounting pressure
"I think he followed the instincts of every father and every parent, and I do not mark him down for that," Johnson said at the government's daily coronavirus briefing on Sunday.The Prime Minister added that Cummings had"no alternative" but to drive 260 miles across England to stay with his parents while his wife was sick with Covid-19 symptoms.
Cummings' influence over ministers is well documented in the British political press, but Downing Street's approach is no longer being followed by several of Johnson's own backbenchers, who one by one began to call on Cummings to go on Sunday."Enough is enough," Conservative lawmaker Steve Baker wrote in an opinion piece for The Critic website.
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