How many of the MPs condemning Cummings have a London apartment & a home in their constituencies? Which one are they living in at present? Have they shifted at all btwn them since mid-March?
Any MP that transferred from their London apartment to their constituency home after March 23rd has accepted that it is within both the letter & the spirit of the lockdown rules to relocate if you had a good reason for doing so (as indeed it is).
Any MP (or journalist) whose adult or student children relocated from small flats to live back with their parents during lockdown has accepted that it is within both the letter & the spirit of the lockdown rules to relocate if you had a good reason for doing so (as indeed it is).
The UK never had a "stay-in-place" type lockdown law that forbade people from relocating if they had a good reason for doing so. Perhaps the public *imagined* that that was the rule. Perhaps even some of the police *imagined* that was the rule. But it was never the actual rule.
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