Boris Johnson is facing a revolt among Tory MPs over his decision not to sack Dominic Cummings, as a growing number of backbenchers call for him to go.
Prominent member of the 1922 Committee Steve Baker warned that Boris Johnson’s advisor was “burning through Boris’s political capital at a rate that we just can ill afford in the midst of this crisis”.
Mr Cummings is under renewed fire after reports surfaced that the 48-year-old made a second trip to County Durham, despite social restrictions.
Speaking outside his London home on Sunday, after one journalist asked if he had been back to Durham in April, Mr Cummings said: “No, I did not.”
He then made his way to Number 10 Downing Street.
No 10 said the reports were “inaccurate”. Additionally Mr Cummings is understood to have told Number 10 that the claims that he returned North after April 13th were “totally false”.
Downing Street previously confirmed that the chief advisor had travelled 260 miles to the North East in March to self-isolate with his family.
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