Criticism has rained down on Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings from the nation's papers, some of it from unlikely quarters.
While attacks from the Daily Mirror and The Guardian were to be expected, even the right-leaning Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph were among the critics, the Mail launching a withering assault on Mr Cummings for flouting lockdown guidelines and on Mr Johnson for his defence of his chief adviser. "What planet are they on?" the Mail screams on its front page, saying that is the question the nation is asking about the "No 10 svengali who flouted the PM's own strict lockdown rules", and about Mr Johnson "brazenly" supporting him.