Church of England bishops have accused the Prime Minister of treating people "as mugs" and with "no respect" after he defended Dominic Cummings for breaking lockdown.
At the daily Downing Street press conference on Sunday evening, Boris Johnson said Dominic Cummings had "acted responsibly, legally and with integrity" by driving 260 miles to County Durham to isolate due to childcare concerns.
But writing on Twitter near the end of the briefing, The Rt Revd Nick Baines, Bishop of Leeds, said: "The question now is: do we accept being lied to, patronised and treated by a PM as mugs? "The moral question is not for Cummings - it is for PM and ministers/MPs who find this behaviour acceptable. "What are we to teach our children? [I ask as a