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UK lockdown fines for childcare-related travel WON'T be reviewed

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It is a question that Health Secretary Matt Hancock promised to give full answer in writing about at the UK's daily press briefing yesterday when quizzed by a vicar from Brighton.

The Reverend Martin Poole asked Mr Hancock: "Will the government review all penalty fines imposed on families travelling for childcare purposes during lockdown?” The question followed the revelations of the Prime Minister's most senior aide Dominic Cummings' controversial 260-mile trip to Durham from London in March when he and his wife were ill during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

He has refused to apologise over the trip or to resign despite mounting unease and criticism from Conservative backbench MPs as Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended him.

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