Will he resign?

Couldn't disagree more with nanniejcl.
Its not one rule for us and another for him. Trouble is its his rule and the excuses made are laughable.
We have all made huge sacrifices, yet cummings thinks he can do whatever he wants without thought for anyone else.

oldgoat
His first day back in the HoC after his illness, each time Boris said something he looked around automatically for affirmation but there was an almost empty house.

I hope the neighbour who " shopped" him is pleased with him/her self... ( apparently we ought to say " themselves" as its more PC in this day and age)
Whatever my views on what DC did, I am just glad I don't have neighbours like that.

Nanniejc1, if you think we're angry about a man who made a rule for the country and then almost immediately broke it several times himself BECAUSE we're banging on about an election that was 6 months ago, you're an apologist for Cummings.

Don't make a rule and then think you're above it.

I read a post today on FB from one of my friends. He hadn't seen his mum for 8 weeks because of lockdown. Yesterday she died of C19 with only a nurse holding her hand. Cummings is a selfish a**e and that is NOTHING to do with the election or Brexit.

If Grant Shapp’s version is to be believed it wasn’t neighbours. It was his father who contacted Durham Constabulary while they were there to discuss an undisclosed security matter.

His behaviour is indefensible,he is in the public eye,he should be leading by example.

What he did was wrong,I hope my neighbours would report anyone who so blatantly ignored the rules.

It is not about whoever reported him,it is about the way he acted.He has to go.

I am horrified by some of the atrocious spelling in this thread, also some of the ridiculous comments. My view is that Cummings has to resign. It is nothing to do with politics; in his position as a public figure he has to acknowledge, apologise and go. I am a Tory, but would say exactly the same if Cummings represented any other party. Does anyone know what provision, if any was/is in place where both parents of a toddler became ill during lockdown, with Covid-19 or any other illness?

I agree with Quizqueen. I understand it was his sister's anyway not parents. It is all the leftists. Plus Remainders making a meal of it and as for. BBC you would think there was nothing else of importance going on. Families with no child care issues visiting in my street daily.

I totally agree with most of the above comments - the behaviour of Dominic Cummings was reprehensible, and he should either resign or be sacked, His sheer arrogance is beyond belief.

However, during the COVID-19 update yesterday (Saturday), and this morning's Andrew Marr show, hardly anything else was discussed. All questions asked by the reporters, including Marr were regarding Dominic Cummings.

Surely other important issues relating to the UK also need to be addressed!

Yes of course he should resign but it will be a miracle if he does. His reasons for going are unconvincing nonsense put forward only now he's been found out. The whole incident undermines the government's lockdown message and makes a mockery of those among us who have sacrificed seeing loved ones for the greater good of us all. He and this government are shameless if he is allowed to stay in post.

Cummings isn't the real problem here though his act will give carte blanche to the hundreds of idiots who'll now gather at different venues when the sun's out who'll then use him as an excuse/example.

What has he done so wrong that thousands of others haven't, flocking on the beaches ? Name and shame them too ! It's crowds who kill.

Why could Andrew Marr not have interviewed Cummings? We could have had straight answers then!

1. I can't say I don't like Mr Cummings because I don't know him. He might be a really nice, friendly, lovely man but unless I actually meet him and get to know him (unlikely) I won't ever find out.
2. I don't like the fact that an unelected, and therefore unremoveable, person can have any influence over the PM. I felt the same with Alistair Campbell and Tony Blair (I think I have the right man)
3. I wish he had been caught going to his holiday home or having a tryst with his married lover then I could join in the "he must go" brigade. But he did neither of these.
4. He did not go to his parents house. He went to a house near his sister and niece.
5. His wife was ill. He knew there was a good chance he would be ill. No one, prince or pauper, knows how this illness will affect them. Yes, they could get it mildly, but they might also have been extremely ill and need hospital care. Just look what happened to Boris Johnson.
6. Imagine the panic. They have a four year old son and no back up in London. If they were really really ill just exactly what would have happened, not to them, but to that little boy? We aren't talking about someone leaving a bag of groceries and loo paper on the door step here, we are talking about caring for one very small child. Would he have been taken into care? Would social workers have taken him to his aunt's house? Would anyone have known about him?
7. How many of us can truly say we would not have done the same? My SiL had symptoms and was tested (fortunately negative). My DD , a frontline NHS worker , knew if he had it, she may get it too. She asked my other daughter if she would look after her niece and nephew if she and her and BiL were too ill. The only difference being that my two DDs live 10 minutes apart and needn't make that decision in advance.
8. Ellanvanin I don't think that Mr Cummings isn't your idea of handsome is remotely relevant. Would you feel differently if he was drop dead gorgeous?
9. Let's stop this " let's bash the government, regardless" attitude. Too many people are being deliberately obtuse and just looking for any excuse to make trouble. If we are to survive this emotionally as well as physically we have to stop always looking for the bad and the negative and start using common sense and compassion. And always say " in all honesty, what would I say/do in the same situation?"

Boy oh boy has this brought out the curtain-twitchers.

yes,it shouldn't be one rule for us and one rule for them.My son's not allowed to drive just a few miles to bring my granddaughter for me to look after,nobody's allowed to look after their grandchildren now.And people weren't supposed to drive that distance,so he broke 2 rules.

For gods sake, he's a human being who wanted to see his old and ill parents

Of course! What could be kinder than taking your virus infected family and a 4 year old child to see your elderly parents. He's all heart is Cummings.

It’s all brushed under the carpet now but back in early March Cummings was a mouthy advocate of the ‘let them die’ herd policy and advised a delayed lockdown! Boris has been weak as runny cheese since elected , totally at a loss , and follows bully Cummings like a puppy, Cummings who after all orchestrated Brexit and got Boris in ( with lies ) . So I think he should be sacked for the 36000 extra deaths due to delayed lockdown including his uncles. In fact sacking him is generous.
Putting his parents at risk was horrible , but putting his child at risk wicked ( driving a child 270 miles locked up in a small car space with two C19 infected adults is frankly child abuse) . I find him the most insane, thick , bullying, nasty guy in politics. JMHO.

But, Lizbethann he does have friends and relatives living nearby in London who could have brought food etc for him, and at the time the general public were not allowed to drive that far. Just a little way if necessary for exercise. But somehow we all evidently misinterpreted his rules.

I agree about these Senior Advisors having too much power. Alistair Campbell did and now Dominic Cummings is taking it to a new level. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell who is Prime Minister or whether the PM actually is in charge.

Lizbethann55

6. Imagine the panic. They have a four year old son and no back up in London. If they were really really ill just exactly what would have happened, not to them, but to that little boy? We aren't talking about someone leaving a bag of groceries and loo paper on the door step here, we are talking about caring for one very small child. Would he have been taken into care? Would social workers have taken him to his aunt's house? Would anyone have known about him?

They had family AND friends in London. They would have done the same thing they would have done from the separate house they were in, in Durham. If they got worse, one of them would have made a phone call.

7. How many of us can truly say we would not have done the same? My SiL had symptoms and was tested (fortunately negative). My DD , a frontline NHS worker , knew if he had it, she may get it too. She asked my other daughter if she would look after her niece and nephew if she and her and BiL were too ill. The only difference being that my two DDs live 10 minutes apart and needn't make that decision in advance.

The Cummings had family/friends/help LESS than 10 minutes away.

If he’s driving 270 miles either he’s not that sick or he’s a danger to the public going to garages etc super spreading while infected.

From his appearance and demeanour when leaving HOC earlier, he isn't looking quite as cocky and sure of himself as he was yesterday. Fingers crossed he can see the writing on the wall.

so he was ill with covid-19 and yet he drove all the way to his parents did he stop to think he could of been taken seriously ill on the way there and involve innocent people plus the emergency services in coming to help him, he could of caused an accident if he had passed out and been the cause of someones death. this was not the only trip he took a second one has now come to light, he should be sacked as an example you do not break the rules if he is not or doesnt resign it proves that there is one rule for people connected to goverment or rich and famous then one rule for the rest of us. i belong with the rest of us.

I can catagorically state that I wouldn't have done the same.
Because there was no bloody need to!!!!!

Thinking that you may get sick is a ridiculous justification.

He will be gone - the question is how soon.

The next question is - how on earth will Johnson manage?

I see that well known lefty Peter Bone thinks Dominic Cummings should go.