Boris Johnson today threw his full support behind lockdown renegade Dominic Cummings. But the PM sent minister Grant Shapps out to defend his special adviser after it emerged Mr Cummings took his family 260 miles to be near his parents’ home to isolate themselves with coronavirus.
The Transport Secretary was unable to say whether Mr Johnson knew that Mr Cummings, 48, had whisked his wife Mary and four-year-old son Alexander to a property in County Durham.
The family, who have a house in London, decided to self-isolate in the North after both were diagnosed with Covid-19. A local police and crime commissioner called for Mr Cummings – who takes part in crucial meetings of the Government’s scientific coronavirus advice group Sage – to be