Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has denied claims the chief nursing officer for England was dropped from Number 10 press briefings because she refused to defend the disgraced advisor Dominic Cummings.
According to reports Ruth May was removed from a briefing when she refused to support Cummings’s decision to move his family 260 miles to Durham to stay on his parents’ farms.
The chief nursing officer had been due to appear alongside Matt Hancock on June 1, but she was cut when she felt unable to defend the Prime Minister's chief adviser, according to the Independent.
When asked about the claims at Friday's briefing, Shapps said: "I don't think it is true. She has attended them many times before.