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The prime minister’s chief aide Dominic Cummings is dealing with fresh accusations that he breached lockdown guidelines.
He and the government had actually said he acted “reasonably and legally” by driving from London to County Durham while his other half had coronavirus symptoms.
The Observer and Sunday Mirror are now reporting he was seen in the North East on two more celebrations, after recovering from his own Covid-19 signs and returning to operate in London.
No 10 stated the story is “incorrect”.
Ministers have actually stated Mr Cummings and his spouse had actually chosen to self-isolate at a property nearby to other relative in case they required assist with childcare.
Speaking with press reporters outside his home in London on Saturday, he said he would not be resigning and had done the “best thing” by travelling 260 miles with his wife and young kid to be near relatives when she developed Covid-19 symptoms at the end of March.
Nevertheless, the two newspapers said witnesses have actually reported seeing Mr Cummings in Barnard Castle, more than 25 miles from Durham, on 12 April.
On 14 April, he was seen in London. According to the reports, he was found again in Houghall Woods near Durham on 19 April.
Mr Cummings is yet to respond to the brand-new claims.
But the BBC’s political reporter Iain Watson says ministers will be hoping that concerns about Mr Cummings’ movements will not have actually dented public trust in the federal government’s lockdown assistance.
Gave up calls
The story of Mr Cummings’ journey to Durham originally appeared in the Guardian and Daily Mirror on Friday night.
In response to the fresh claims in the documents’ Sunday publications, Downing Street said: “Yesterday the Mirror and Guardian composed unreliable stories about Mr Cummings.
” Today they are composing more inaccurate stories consisting of claims that Mr Cummings returned to Durham after returning to operate in Downing Street on 14 April.
” We will not lose our time responding to a stream of false accusations about Mr Cummings from campaigning papers.”
Opposition parties renewed their require the prime minister’s consultant to go.
The SNP’s Ian Blackford stated Mr Cummings “has to leave workplace”, while acting Liberal Democ