Cummings again

Dominic Cummings.

I can understand his panic, the decisions he took, putting his child's welfare first. I'm not a parent, but I do understand. What he forgot was who he was. Hightailing it all the way to Durham, a 4-hour drive up the A1, to self-isolate on a private estate, in a secluded wood a few miles out of town.

How many other people will have faced a similar scenario, both parents falling ill, responsible for small children - but who don't have the facility of a distant hideaway. His argument for not staying at home in London, he didn't want to expose anyone to the virus, is flimsy and really doesn't hold water. To quote some of the journalists at the press conference, he drove a coach and horses through the lockdown policy of the government he advises.

Mr Cummings is a high-profile, high-ranking advisor, as I pointed out in my earlier post. He has failed to take his position into consideration when confronted with the coronavirus outbreak in his own situation. That is a failure which actually renders him unfit to hold the position he does. However, I am not so naive as to expect him to be sacked. He won't resign, knowing full well that his boss, Boris Johnson, is heavily reliant on him - and won't sack him.

The ugly side of politics.