Boris Johnson has doubled down on his defence of top aide Dominic Cummings. Speaking at the daily Coronavirus briefing, the Prime Minister addressed questions over whether Mr Cummings had broken the rules and "endangered lives." He claimed that he had not, despite his strategy chief travelling 260 miles to a Durham hideaway when his wife had coronavirus symptoms.
Mr Johnson said Mr Cummings had travelled to "try to find the right kind of childcare." He said: "I have had extensive face-to-face conversations with Dominic Cummings and I have concluded that in travelling to find the right kind of childcare, at the moment when both he and his wife were about to be incapacitated by coronavirus - and when he had no alternative - I think he