The UK Prime Minister’s top aide Dominic Cummings found himself under fire for travelling across the country during the coronavirus lockdown with his son and his wife, with the latter displaying coronavirus symptoms. Amid the scandal, the advisor had faced calls to resign from across the political spectrum. Acting leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey has cited newly-published government data as showing that the Dominic Cummings scandal, when the political strategist was accused of breaching lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, had made the British public more divided, writes The Telegraph. According to the Liberal Democrats, outrage over Dominic Cummings’ […]
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Amid the coronavirus pandemic, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent three nights in intensive care in April, after being initially diagnosed with COVID-19 on 27 March, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab standing in to deputise in his absence. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson may resign from office in six months time due to lingering health issues after he succumbed to the coronavirus respiratory disease in March, according to the father-in-law of his closest aide, Dominic Cummings, reports The Times. In a conversation that reportedly took place last week between journalist Anna Silverman and Sir Humphrey Wakefield, father of Cummings’ wife Mary, […]
Florida Senator Marco Rubio was among many in Washington paying tribute to Rep. John Lewis. However, Rubio posted a picture of himself alongside the late Elijah Cummings, another civil rights leader who shares Lewis’ skin color. Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, passed away on Saturday after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. As news of his death spread, lawmakers and public figures in Washington paid tribute to the longtime civil rights champion, who’d marched alongside Martin Luther King in Selma, Alabama in 1965, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. READ MORE: Rep. John Lewis, iconic civil rights leader, dead […]
The prime minister’s chief adviser has declined to explain the reason for the payments to Faculty, made in instalments over two years, and the firm itself is also remaining tight-lipped on the question. A private company owned and controlled by Dominic Cummings paid over a quarter of a million pounds to Faculty, the artificial intelligence firm that worked on the Vote Leave campaign, The Guardian has revealed. Faculty made headlines earlier in 2020 when it was given a central role in the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis, conducting data modelling to help officials respond to the pandemic – in all, […]
Amid a pending review of the UK’s armed forces, the Ministry of Defence has been warned that the chief advisor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson – Dominic Cummings – is looking to recondition the organisation. Dominic Cummings is poised to visit SAS and four other sensitive military sites, a leaked Ministry of Defence (MoD) email revealed on Wednesday, as the Prime Ministers’ top advisor seeks to overhaul the government body. Boris Johnson’s aide will be given a personal tour which will include visits to the Special Boat Service in Dorset, SAS headquarters in Herefordspecialist, and military research laboratories at Porton Down, Wiltshire, according to […]
Allegations that England’s chief nurse was stood down from a Downing Street Covid-19 daily briefing after refusing to publicly back PM Boris Johnson’s top aide Dominic Cummings have provoked outrage. Ruth May was scheduled to appear alongside UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock on June 1 to update the public on progress being made in tackling the coronavirus pandemic. However, according to senior NHS sources, England’s top nurse was dropped just hours before the briefing. Also on rt.com ‘Told the truth’: Piers Morgan blasts ‘pathetic’ BBC for throwing Newsnight presenter ‘to the wolves’ after Cummings monologue May is said to have told […]
Dominic Cummings is a genius. Without him we probably wouldn’t have got Brexit, Boris wouldn’t have got his massive majority and I desperately want him to drain the Westminster swamp… BUT what he has done in breaking the lockdown is unforgivable. There was no sweet smell of roses in the Downing Street Garden yesterday but there was a stench of BS which was only magnified when Boris held his press conference after Cummings interrogation. Boris proceeded to revert to his usual mumbling bumbling act. Like a visit to your favourite Nana who offers you some chocolate bars from her sideboard to […]
The most serious political crisis that Boris Johnson has faced as British prime minister is getting worse. Johnson has become a lightning rod for the fury of the British public—frustrated and restless after nine weeks of lockdown restrictions—after his decision not to sack his top aide who was forced to admit that he traveled hundreds of miles during the pandemic, despite suspecting that both he and his wife had COVID-19. After days of Johnson trying to excuse the actions of Dominic Cummings, as well as an extraordinary televised press conference where Cummings emerged from the shadows in an unsuccessful attempt to […]
The under-secretary of state for Scotland has become the first UK government minister to resign from cabinet after PM Boris Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings allegedly broke lockdown rules at the height of Covid-19 crisis. In his resignation letter, published on social media on Monday morning, junior minister Douglas Ross insisted that he had constituents who had not been able to say “goodbye to loved ones” and were not allowed to “mourn together” as a family during the coronavirus pandemic. I cannot in good faith tell them they were all wrong and one senior adviser to the government was right. I […]
While some of the morning papers directly focused on Dominic Cummings’ justification of his 220-mile trip with purportedly virus-hit wife and little son from their London home, amidst the stringent lockdown, others came up with “killer questions” they say he still faces over the alleged breach of conduct for top government officials. The Dominic Cummings controversy, which has so divided both the UK political elite and general public, shows no signs of going away any time soon, as his “no regrets” affirmation dominates the Tuesday front pages of all major British newspapers, the morning after Cummings’ TV appearance. The Mirror, whose joint investigation […]
UK 07:45 GMT 25.05.2020Get short URL The outspoken GMB host believes that by defending the top Downing Street policy adviser, notably behind the set of COVID containment rules, the prime minister is “telling” Brits “their lengthy lockdown effort” was no more than “a waste of time”. Addressing the recent fierce spat over Dominic Cummings’ relocation from London to his parents’ home during the stringent lockdown, Piers Morgan angrily declared that Boris Johnson, who stood up in his aide’s defence, has gone from “hero to zero”. “Boris Johnson is done. 63k people dead on his watch from a virus his reckless complacency […]