Will he resign?

Worth remembering that for most people, symptoms are mild.. so, it wasn't an emergency.

Well that too depends upon which version you read MissA. Because on the 24th April his wife said Dominic Cummings collapsed and was confined to bed for 10 days with severe breathlessness after contracting the coronavirus, his wife has revealed. Writing in The Spectator, Mary Wakefield said her husband should have been hospitalised when his symptoms worsened. But he was well enough to drive 250 miles.

Whitewavemark2 ; Yes Mr Johnson has set the rules for the country. In the beginning many people were very afraid of what was going to happen. Since Mr. Johnson gave his pre-recorded speech on relaxing some of the restrictions the population has gone freedom crazy and it is about time that he made a serious speech to reinforce that we are still in some sort of organised lockdown.
Is there another speech due soon about the lockdown I think it is every three weeks. I have heard that he is looking at loosening the lockdown further as he has his intentions set to get the children returning to school. All the grand-parents will love him then because it is them that will have to see to childcare when their parents go back to work.

If, after all, it was his sister who looked after the child, why could she not have driven to London? It would have been so much easier.

Hmmm.
Statement from number 10 says that owing to his wife having the virus.
It doesn't mention him having it.

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

Has anyone ever been on a long journey with a child?
I'm sure the answer is 'yes'.

I want a wee
I really want a wee
I'm going to wet myself in a minute!

You stop by the side of a motorway because there are no services nearby and a police car zooms up and says you can't stop here for that. That was before lockdown.
But I'm not Mrs Cummings.

I've been on an exceptionally long journey, when we got lost on the way to Kent.

9 hours door to door.

Yes gaslighting . Cummings puts his sick wife and his child into a car and drives to his relatives. The self isolating rule which should apply to her is broken. Wife then writes a column about how she nursed her sick husband and looked after the child before emerging into London lockdown. Did these clever people not realise that they had at that point destroyed any argument that they did it for essential child care? But that is what we are told to believe. More fool us if we let him away with this.

Lucca he hasn’t been mentioned yet by the usual suspect. Maybe bringing him into this is a stretch too far even for her.

He has a high position in government, the child was better off being looked after safely by family, not staying in lockdown in London. I would have done the same, in his position. I have been in self isolation for almost 10 weeks, a visit to the shops would be an unimaginable treat. I do not believe everything I read, sometimes situations are more involved than they appear. Is there no one that would put their child first. He didn’t go on a jolly or to see his mistress. I’m just fed up of these witch hunts.

Strange that you think he put his child first.
I see it as the exact opposite.

Makes a complete mockery of the rest of us that are sticking to the rules and staying at home.
Have to wonder if that is why it seems to have taken an extra long time for the track and trace to be brought in. Wonder how many others either of the government or MPs have been travelling around. How many others have been visiting their second/holiday homes on the quiet?
A case of do as I say, not as I do? He should go !

Quite agree Sparkling with a child involved who was going to look after him. Statement from No. 10 quite clear, sister stepped in to look after the youngster while Mr. Cummings and his wife self isolated in a separate property. What would we do in the same circumstances?

Number 10 are denying that the police were involved.

Hermia That's not what Mrs Cummings' article in the Spectator claimed. She claimed she was occupying the child while her husband was ill.

I would do as I did when I was ill and was a single parent with nobody to help me out!

And I wouldn't have lied about it … nor would I have been at the heart of government, deciding how everybody else should act.

And I wouldn't have lied about it … nor would I have been at the heart of government, deciding how everybody else should act.

The same for many, many single parents, now including me (again!)
I'm quite amazed at how much of a fuss is being made about parents looking after their own children.

It’s very fortunate that the child didn’t carry the virus to the elderly parents and infect them as well.
There was a rule in place , no travelling unless you were an essential worker going to work, he broke it and should be fired and not allowed to resign.
As someone else said, it makes you wonder just how many of our ‘leaders’ stayed at home to protect the NHS.

I’m afraid he’ll get away with it but he shouldn’t. I thought he read he was going to his elderly parents . But I may have got that wrong.

You may well have read that.

He was ill. He wasn't ill, but thought he may become ill.
She was very ill. She wasn't ill, she was nursing him, who suddenly was ill.

Simple, really.

He/they have told so many lies about this that, like any liar, they haven't got a good enough memory to remember what they've said to whom. Bottom line..... he's a liar, whichever version he chooses.

My mum always told me that if I was going to lie, I had better make it a good one.

Good advice that I've always heeded.

My Mum always said that liars need a good memory . So true. Some people lie then they say something slightly different which lets you know that it was all made up.

I always pick up on things people say, then the story changes..
All those years of getting my story straight, I suppose.