Durham Constabulary has said Dominic Cummings may have committed 'a minor breach' of lockdown rules when he drove to Barnard Castle but will face no further action. In response, Downing Street says the PM 'regards this issue as closed'. More here:
, who claimed he"followed the instincts of every father and every parent" and has defied calls for an independent inquiry.
Shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said:"The police have confirmed what we all knew, that Dominic Cummings broke the rules he helped to write. The country cannot afford for this saga to carry on. Only Boris Johnson can draw a line under it." She has publicly defended Mr Cummings, saying"protecting one's family is what any good parent does" and that it was"wholly inappropriate to politicise it".laughed off suggestions
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