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The strongest case against Mr Cummings is less about the rules and more about trust in government during a public health crisis.
We can debate the rules back and forth but I’m not sure that gets us anywhere - though of course I understand people’s anger.
The Cummings defence is that he has assured the PM he has broken no rules.
It is not for the PM to determine whether or not this is accurate. How can he know?
The rules are not meant to be a question of belief or trust. An independent enquiry should establish whether any rules have been broken.
The key question for the PM was whether or not public trust in the government had been (and would be further) damaged.
The government’s reservoir of trust is finite and precious. Nothing and no one should be more important.
It is incontrovertible that public trust has been damaged. And at a crucial point.
And it is this simple but crucial point the PM seems to have failed to grasp.
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