Dominic Cummings is currently under a huge amount of pressure to resign for flagrantly breaking the UK's lockdown guidelines while showing symptoms of Corvid 19 (and later testing positive). Cummings is Boris Johnson's special advisor and has a great deal of power in Westminster, despite being hated by a fair amount of Conservative MPs. He was also the director of the Leave Campaign in the Brexit referendum. He's basically a bit like a bald Rasputin.
At the moment Cummings appears utterly unrepentant, so I guess the pressure is now on Boris Johnson. Other officials have previously resigned for less serious breaches of this policy, so there is a clear precedent. Will Boris throw Cummings under the bus? And how would Johnson cope without the guy who tells him what to do?
At the moment Cummings appears utterly unrepentant, so I guess the pressure is now on Boris Johnson. Other officials have previously resigned for less serious breaches of this policy, so there is a clear precedent. Will Boris throw Cummings under the bus? And how would Johnson cope without the guy who tells him what to do?