He made a second trip up to Durham in April

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Back in 1982 Lord Carrington resigned because the Foreign Office hadn't seen the Falklands War coming. It seems like another world now. Cummings has driven a coach and horses through the government's advice on what to do during the lockdown. Tonight it's revealed he was back in Durham strolling through a bluebell wood within a couple of days of his return to work in Downing Street, and he was also seen in Barnard Castle on Easter Sunday, at a time when he has previously been described as so ill he couldn't get out of bed.

If it's true his sister lives in Didcot and was also in Durham in early April and it was their mother's birthday around then - hmmm. His wife has family in London who could have been asked to look after their son if they were both too ill to do it.

Surely he has to go now?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dominic-cummings-ignored-coronavirus-lockdown-22075857

Yes he needs to go.

Needs to go. But the damage has already been done, wouldn’t trust the gov with treating lice

All day long government ministers, including (incredibly) the Health Secretary and the Attorney General, have been stepping up to say he did what he had to for the sake of his family. That narrative looks even less convincing now. Well played, Daily Mirror and Guardian/Observer! Clever timing of these two stories.

Yes. One rule for them. Different one for the rest of us obviously.

Lockdown in any form is now impossible.

he needs to go but sadly, he won't give to hoots what the public and the press think and I doubt Boris will fire him - he is too dependant on Cummings.

I am disgusted at the MPs publicly gaslighting us and saying he did nothing wrong. He NEEDS to go.

That article is based on hearsay, but, is anyone really surprised anymore? Of course he’s broken the rules more than once.

I don’t have words insulting enough to describe what I think of the whole lot of them, tbh.

The barnard castle witness took his number plate......I assume the guardian checked it was the righgt reg? If so, how else would this person know it.....it must have been D.C.

I feel physically sick I'm so disgusted at the hypocrisy of them all. The tweets in support of the psychopath Cummings are horrible. I don't know why but I expected better of Rishi Sunak (the others showed their true colours long ago).

It’s still he said/she said though, no photos/CCTV evidence (yet). I really don’t doubt the witnesses, I trust any random at stranger more than I trust BJ/DC/the cabinet.

To be honest, I'd have more respect if they said clearly, Yes he broke the Rules but he's staying anyway.

He's an idiot (and so was Ferguson), but I don't find these revelations very helpful (do we really want people to break lockdown and get a second peak straight away?), and the timing is odd.

This all seems very strange. Why didn't Cummings stay inside where he couldn't be seen, for the purposes of public deniability later?

Given that Cummings knew he had been out and about, and been seen doing so, why did he and Johnson go full steam ahead with the childcare explanation? The briefing and the tweets just made the cabinet look ridiculous.

Is he trying to goad us into all trooping out to see our parents en masse?

The Spectator, not known for it's anti-Conservative stance, is calling for his resignation, and basically accuses the government of losing all moral authority. And that was written before this second trip revelation.

How sickening for all the people who haven't been able to go to funerals of loved ones, hold their dying hands and see their grandchildren. I'm still coming to terms with the damning calculations that had Dominic Cummings allowed lockdown to happen a week earlier, there would have been a quarter of the deaths. A quarter! There's blood on their hands. Now this? It was his mother's birthday whilst he was on his jolly!! They have a nanny and his brother in law lives in London. They did this because they don't care about the rules they wrote for 'others'. His wife wrote an article about their 'lockdown in London'. He has to go and that rotten lying cabinet need to go too. There should be a vote of no confidence and an interim, competent government brought in. Enough.

The Spectator published his wife’s article about how ill he (allegedly) was. Maybe they feel duped.

Well, I hope the government planned to end lockdown anyway about now, because that's what they are doing if Boris doesn't sack Cummings soon

Oh yes of course@HopeClearwater !

It is an absolute shambles, it shows what a bunch of incompetent idiots that are leading us through this covid crisis towards the cliff that is Brexit.

Oh what joy abounds.

Doesn't his wife work for the spectator? Must be awkward.

Re the disaster of not locking down earlier, was Cummings involved in that? I am not mounting any defence of him but someone told me (hearsay at this point) that he had argued for earlier lockdown?

We all need a laugh, and I just found this elsewhere:

Dominic Cummings argued for herd immunity as did Dr Jennie Harries she also advised that Cheltenham should go ahead.

Don't forget the 10th May visit

This is near me, I had no idea his family live up here.

Cummings may have spent more time in Durham recently than Durham's current cohort of uni students!