#Cummings

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

And now for something completely different. I've just been chatting with someone who does a lot of work with the BBC. He has a perspective on their situation which was

Martin Williams

martinrw

Irrespective of the Cummings situation, let's get a few things straight...It is (and always was) legal to leave your house in order to provide essential care. It's also legal (and

Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺

nicktolhurst

Chris Grayling achieves something remarkable...he fails to become the new chair of the powerful Intelligence and Security Committee.......Even though parachuted in by a Conservative govt on a Conservative majority system.Julian

James Ball

jamesrbuk

The government may wish to think very VERY hard if it really wants to have “sources” briefing claiming it was actually within the rules for Cummings to do what he

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

If #Cummings does play the #autism card, here's how I think he'd expect it to pan out.First it'll generate pity for him and his wife. It shouldn't - we know

J.L. Partners

JLPartnersPolls

6 key points from our new poll for @DailyMailUK 1. 87% of Brits have heard a great deal or a fair amount about the recent events involving Dominic Cummings 2.

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

The legal question is whether Cummings breached regulation 6 of the The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 as they stood at the time.https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1263914317436669955 None of the

🍞🍞Tim Hayward🍞🍞

timhayward

In all the righteous fury about Cummings we’re missing something. This crew of bandits have already done a dozen things that should have brought down a normal government - Grenfell,

Simon Cox *isolate but organise*

SimonFRCox

Whoever thinks it’s clever to say “but Cummings son is autistic” doesn’t get the national mood. 1% are on autistic spectrum. 100,000 UK school age children. 100,000 families trying to

Carole Cadwalladr

carolecadwalla

Shocking story by @PaulLewis & team. @Guardian has seen documents showing govt using Peter Thiel’s Palantir’s & NHS patient data to model ‘herd immunity’ week after policy supposedly droppedhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/uk-gov

davidallengreen

davidallengreen

Some wrap-up thoughts on Cummings, media, law and policy1. Right legal outcome, on any sensible legal viewCastle Barnard trip was a breach of the regulations, but - without evidence of

Anna Orridge🌱🌍🖋

orridge_anna

Overheard a conversation at a cafe between some elderly people who were clearly traditional Tory voters. Some things to note... 1. They don’t like Trump. They think he’s a vulgar

Robert Peston

Peston

Cummings isn't resigning. Or at least not by choice. That much is crystal clear from Number 10's statement that "Mr Cummings believes he behaved reasonably and legally". But it is

Sean Jones QC

seanjonesqc

Why am I angry about how the Govt has dealt with the Cummings affair? - A short thread /1 It’s not because of Brexit. Cummings’s role in the Leave campaign

Sophy Ridge on Sunday

RidgeOnSunday

On tomorrow’s show @grantshapps will be responding to the Dominic Cummings story on behalf of the government.He may understandably not know all of the details we ask for. So we’re

Alex Wickham

alexwickham

Ministers have expressed unbridled fury to the Home Office at heavy-handed policing by some forces They say it risks “civil disobedience on a mass scale putting thousands of lives at