The leader of Rochdale council’s Conservative group says Dominic Cummings should have resigned - or been sacked - for the ‘overwhelming good of the country’.
With outrage growing over the PM’s top adviser's 270-mile journey to Durham during lockdown, the aide told a Downing Street press conference this was so his family could care for his young son should he and his wife both fall ill with coronavirus.
However, he said he ‘never considered’ resigning and has received the full backing of Prime Minister Boris Johnson who insists he acted ‘responsibly, legally and with integrity’.
But Rochdale’s Tory group leader Ashely Dearnley believes the senior adviser should have either jumped or been pushed by the PM. “My view is that he might have