The full public statement from Dominic Cummings, as captured by Guardian News:
Dominic Cummings has said he ‘behaved reasonably’ in driving his family over 260 miles from London to Durham at the height of the coronavirus lockdown. In a lengthy statement from the rose garden at No 10 Downing Street, Boris Johnson’s chief political admitted to traveling a further 30 miles to the nearby town of Barnard Castle, but did so to test his eyesight.
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Barnard Castle is a market town and tourist destination in Teesdale, County Durham, England. It is named after the castle around which it was built.
The Bowes Museum has what is considered to be the best collection of European fine and decorative arts in the North of England, housed in a 19th-century French-style chateau. Its most famous exhibit is the 18th-century Silver Swan automaton.
Barnard Castle sits on the north bank of the River Tees, opposite Startforth and 21 miles (34 km) south-west of the county town of Durham. Nearby towns include Bishop Auckland to the north-east and Darlington to the east.
Barnard Castle’s largest single employer is GlaxoSmithKline, which has a manufacturing facility on the town outskirts.
The town became notorious in 2020 as the destination for a trip by the UK’s most senior political adviser, Dominic Cummings, which was judged to have broken lockdown rules and resulted in a public statement and widespread condemnation.
Boris Johnson has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019.
Covid-19 is the official WHO name given to the novel coronavirus which broke out in late 2019 and began to spread in the early months of 2020.
The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
Below are stories from around the globe related to the 2020 outbreak of novel Coronavirus – since the WHO gave the Covid-19 naming. Most recent items are posted nearest the top.
Dominic Cummings is a British political strategist who served as senior adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson from July 2019 until the Autumn of 2020.
London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom.
