Cummings told reporters that he acted 'reasonably and legally' when he drove across the country with his wife while she was suffering from the virus, despite official advice to stay at home.
Number 10 special advisor Dominic Cummings speaks at a press conference in the Rose Garden at 10 Downing Street in central London on May 25, 2020, following allegations he and his family travelled from London to Durham, while the nation was under full-lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19. Picture: Jonathan Brady / POOL / AFP
“I have not offered to resign. No, I did not consider it,” a visibly nervous Cummings said in his first press conference on the job. The scandal raging around his decision to drive to leave his baby son at his parents’ house while he and his wife were sick threatens to undermine Johnson in the heat of a health emergency that has claimed nearly 37,000 lives.Cummings was already a lightning rod for many Britons over his role in orchestrating the 2016 Brexit campaign that eventually saw Britain pull out of the European Union after nearly 50 years on January 31.
Johnson told the nation on Sunday that Cummings was following his paternal instincts by dropping off his baby son at his grandparents’ house while he and his wife were sick.
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