1. Like other MPs commenting my inbox is chockablock with emails from constituents furious about Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson’s blasé endorsement of his action. The hypocrisy stinks and people know it.

2. This isn’t an orchestrated email lobbying exercise, these are not cut and paste messages from a campaign’s website. Each email written with raw emotion - grandparents who haven’t seen children, sons and daughter worried about elderly mums and dads.

3. An ICU doctor writes ‘the support of Dominic Cummings and his breaches of the Covid 19 advice sends a clear message to the public. Either that he is above the rest of us or that these guidelines are a waste of time.’

4. The ICU doctor continues: ‘It also undermines all those members of the public that have adhered to the guidelines and not been allowed to see births or even say goodbye to a dying relative.’

5. We know covid is deadly and spread with speed. It exploits ambivalence and is opportunistic. The openly disregard guidelines when you are part of the team in PM’s office drawing them up is totally irresponsible.

6. In a pandemic everyone must adjust their behaviour to protect us all, how can Matt Hancock expect adherence to social distancing requirements while endorsing breaches like this. They are taking the British public for fools.

7. Arguably more burdensome social distancing measures are on way. For test, trace and isolate to work and easing of lockdown to be safe we will have to isolate for 14 days if requested by a tracer. Does Boris Johnson expect that to happen while Cummings’ behaviour is endorsed?

8. Finally Boris Johnson said in his letter he mailed to everyone paid for by taxpayer we must all stay at home. It really is one rule for him and his elite friends and another for rest of us. Ends

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