UK politics news – live: Government to 'look into' cancelling fines for travelling families as Jeremy Hunt says Dominic Cummings broke lockdown rules
Tory minister Douglas Ross has resigned in protest over the Dominic Cummings scandal, saying he could not “in good faith” tell constituents who have followed government advice in the face of heartbreak that “they were all wrong and one senior adviser to the government was right”.
Public opinion of Boris Johnson and the government appears to have significantly soured this weekend with Savanta ComRes finding the prime minister’s approval ratings had dropped 20 points, as his most senior aide refused to apologise for his trip to Durham and Barnard Castle, the latter of which was allegedly to test his eyesight during his recovery from coronavirus.
With growing numbers of Conservative MPs voicing their discomfort at Mr Cummings actions, senior Tory William Wragg said it had been “humiliating and degrading” for ministers to “put out agreed lines in defence of an adviser”, particularly at a time of national emergency.
