@Walkaround
Surely Dominic Cummings is nationally known as the corrupt liar who arrogantly kept the nation waiting to hear him explain how his superior judgement led him to test his eyesight by driving his car to a tourist destination?! To be believable, his evidence should be that the Government must have something to hide for ever employing him in the first place and then keeping the tosser on when he had proven himself to be a bare faced liar on national television.
I'd agree that he lied about Durham.
And he's arrogant - or at least was... his play at simpleton today is a bit unbelievable.
But as far as the beginning of the epidemic goes, everything he has said is true - nothing particular new there if you were willing to look before and put the pieces together. Sadly few journalists did, although there were a couple of good articles done on it, but none made the mainstream press.
But we are very tribal these days - most of those who voted for Brexit/Boris will blindly ignore any criticism of this government (it was the same on the other side incidentally with Corbyn).
So in a few weeks, Cummings' testimony will be completely forgotten too.
Incidentally though, the biggest fault at the start lay NOT with the government, but with SAGE. I don't believe that you can blame the government for following what they believed was the best scientific advice at the time. Boris's first fuck-up imo, strangely enough, was in the way he rushed exit from the first lockdown to deflect attention away from Cummings' illegal trip.