Dominic Cummings withstands grilling by journalists
Boris Johnson’s controversial chief strategist, Dominic Cummings, faced the full force of the British media for his alleged breach of coronavirus lockdown rules and announced he has not “considered resigning over the issue”.
Looking shaken and diffident, Cummings nevertheless stood his ground and refused to admit to wrongdoing.
Notorious for his pugilistic style with the media, for the first time in his career Cummings was forced to endure prolonged questioning by journalists bordering on interrogation.
Cummings has been accused of violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the lockdown rules by driving his wife and son 260 miles from London to Durham to visit his elderly parents.
An aggravating feature of the case is that his wife had developed COVID-19 symptoms at the time the long drive took place.
But despite the evidence against him, the stern and dogmatic Cummings maintained he doesn’t “regret” what he did.
Before this afternoon’s news conference, there appeared to be growing momentum behind calls for Cummings to quit with at least 20 Tory MPs calling on the controversial adviser to resign.
But the Prime Minister’s right-hand man appears to have weathered the storm, doubtless emboldened by last-minute support from Johnson.
At a news conference yesterday the PM said he believed Cummings had acted “responsibly and legally”.
The PM’s unequivocal defense of his strategist and Cummings’ own resilience in the face of a concerted media grilling appear to indicate that Johnson’s right-hand man is set to maintain his position at the heart of government.
Distant, aloof, dogmatic and intensely polemical, Cummings – who is not a formal member of the Conservative party – embodies the persona and attitude of the new Tory ideological vanguard.
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