Boris is being unfurloughed for tonight's briefing

[ssd]

Should be interesting.

This is really awful, are people going to put up with this?
I wonder how the people in those "red wall" seats that got him the big majority feel about it? Some of them must be very badly affected by the lockdown.

Just proves that BJ is DC puppet, I would love to know what DC has on BJ to have this hold over him. Hopefully this will split the Tories & bring about their doom.
^^^
I hope investigative journos are all over this for as long as it takes. As to the Tories downfall - we can but hope!

Bet he’s glad of a PPE question!!! Bet this will be the last question of the session....

Young woman - great questions there

Anyone catch her name?

Unbelievable Boris J. not answering the question - how come one set of rules applies to Dominic C. and another to the general public? The level of facetiousness is infuriating!
I have spent lockdown on the verge of a nervous breakdown, with my child suffering 2 fevers, 2 bouts of self isolation, struggling to get anyone to deliver food to our house and I did not travel 20 miles to my mother in law for childcare at any point.
I guess, Boris J., all rules are subject to interpretation.
Also, disgusting how "childcare" and the needs of a 4 year old are being used to pull at emotional heartstrings and elicit empathy.
Not from me.

35 mins of waffle. I love how Bozo reacted to the guy with the beard and ginger hair. It was like get him the fuck off the screen, he’s making too much sense.

Vote of no confidence anyone?????

Yes, vote of no confidence.

He's not answering anything. And it's annoying him getting asked all these silly questions about his pal.

And he wanted to come here today to tell us all this, not because he should be there as he's PM, but because he wanted to stick up for his pal.

He's glad to go back to furlough tomorrow fuck this for a game of soldiers.

Can't decide if I'm watching a news conference or an extract from Alan Bennett's latest play.

He can do as he likes really though.

What are people going to do? Protest? Write petitions?

The 'pepole' have no ability to force his hand one way or another.

It's a money and power thing.

Boris has had enough - not even bothering to thank the reporters now before passing the questions across.

I've never seen anything as disgraceful as this in my 58 years. I am utterly disgusted. This is shameless stuff.

I very rarely post but I feel physically sick listening to the nonsense being spouted I felt compelled to. How dare they treat the citizens of this country as fools! How dare they make out what he did was because he was a caring parent. I am actually shaking with rage.

"I believe that in every respect he has acted responsibly and legally and with integrity and with the overwhelming aim of stopping the spread of the virus and saving lives.”

That is the exact opposite of the way he acted - it's throwing a bucket of bullshit in the public's face and telling them to fuck off.

Me neither, @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

Dogs with a bone. Bet he was sweating cobs 😂 I gave up watching as it was torture .

Did BJ really just say he understood childcare problems DC may have faced? Jesus wept. Absent father of many knows all about childcare. What a twat.

I am so angry I could spit. I can't see my parents for months and months and I accept that because keeping them safe is my top priority. Cummings puts other people's health and wellbeing at risk and gets praised for it? What's he got on Johnson? I can't see any other explanation for this.

Can barely believe what I’ve just seen.

Surely can’t be any way back from this shit?

I don't want this to go away on another news cycle. I am writing to my MP etc etc whatever else I can do. They are counting on it just washing over with the next news story.

Seeing a really nasty side of Boris tonight ill tempered, arrogant, lying I mean I always found him nasty but the masked slipped tonight that is for sure

Wow.
As a single mum in London with zero family nearby, I wish I used my fucking instinct and drove to my family 200 miles away weeks ago.
I can’t believe what I just witnessed from BJ.

Lock down officially over there - over to each member of the public and their "interpretation" of the rules. Of course, this is what the Tory Party wanted from the get go - herd immunity strategy + back to work + getting to blame the public whenever things go tits up.
Vote Tory!

That didn't go well, and you could see it in his shifty, piggy little eyes at the end that he knows it didn't go well.