Cummings is taking questions later today

[pontypridd]

How on earth is that going to go?

Have we already established that Mary can't drive?

I love the bit about him being so unwell he had to go out and drive to see if he could drive.

I can't believe he had to come back to London for all these meetings anyway. Surely the vast majority are being done, or should have been being done because of the spread, remotely anyway. Surely they have wi-fi at his parents house

Deliberate obfuscation...On the other hand, it is strangely satisfying to watch the rising frustration as he tries to keep the details of his story straight.

He is utterly convinced that he is right and everyone else is hard of understanding.

She's very good

Tweet of the day!

There's more holes in his story than Swiss cheese. This reporter is making an incredibly valid point of a non-essential journey to Barnard Castle to test his eyes when the general public were being told not to drive anywhere.

Now his wife is being blamed for suggesting that he "drive down the road" to test his eyesight with his wife and child in the car. Surely if his eyesight was that bad he shouldn't have driven anywhere, let alone with his family.

No apology, no remorse. What a surprise!

I wish they would say who the journalist are rather than just ‘Nicola’

Really like this journalist!

So he didn’t take medical advice before going to Durham

This is the best thing I've seen in ages.

We have terrorists murdering people on London Bridge and at the time we had people calling out for forgiveness. I don't understand the mentality of this country.

I think he genuinely doesn't get it. I think he genuinely believes that he made the right call because his circumstances were exceptional. The problem of course is that if everyone thought like that, lockdown wouldn't have worked. So he's just doubling down on the message it's one rule for him and another for everyone else. I suspect this is not going to play well with the country.

Non essential travel does not mean a 60 mile round trip to sit by a river.
Also putting others at risk driving with dodgy eyesight.

Driving with bad eyesight! This just gets worse and worse.

Whenever my I'm not sure if I can see well enough to drive, I put my most loved small child in a car and go for a test drive. Doesn't everyone?

Again - he says he tested his eyesight by driving!!!!!!!!

Whatever happened to reading a number plate from a distance???????

Barnard Castle will be the Achilles heel

Gah! Picture didn't upload!

So full of absolute shit - he’s so uncomfortable and rightly so

Lemony, I was wondering the same re wife being able to drive.

Why is this even happening? He's not a fucking MP, he's a fucking advisor. He should never, ever have been given this airtime to start with.

And he didn't just drive round the corner, he drove for 30 miles?????

Testing his eyesight

I'm bracing myself for the meme tsunami

Did the security services not know that he was planning to drive 250 miles? Was it okayed?

I simply don't believe he couldn't have got a CoVid test if he had wanted or that Childcare couldn't have been arranged in London for him. He is the PM's right hand not some lowly clerk!

When he started explaining how he went for drives to "test his eyesight" and "feeling sick" I felt so digusted - all the people he potentially put at risk! who drives their car under any circumstances when they are ill and "can't see?" never mind 30 miles away. BS, BS, BS.

Paramedics came out (putting them and their entire families at risk) because his kid puked and had a fever??and he picked them up from hospital next morning. Words fail.

It's so rare that one really gets to see an arrogant narcissist having to justify his actions ... bet he so hates being challenged.