More tweets from a few accounts, yet to be verified but ostensibly credible, suggesting a third trip from Cummings to Durham on 10 May. There’ll be more witnesses if true. Let’s hope journalists look into this and can confirm if it has any substance.
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Yeah what the government did during austerity was hard to take and decimated services. On a side the supreme court has actually agreed that the changes made to the police and fire service pensions were discriminative and refused any right of appeal from the government. Hopefully that will be put right but yeah confidence is low and has been since May was home secretary.
There is definitely more releases to come on this story. As one of the comments says, they will probably release this afternoon ahead of the press conference.
Good morning everyone, should be a fun day!
oh we are all loving this, aren't we?
Has Laura been twattering yet?
Has Laura been twattering yet?
Nope, 24 hours silent so far.
She's the political editor of the BBC and has nothing to say about a huge political story?
Funny that.
Read a tweet just there that she usually tweets loads before Marr etc are on, so another sign it's out of character.
Her "sources" are still fixing their story.
@One Night Only come on over here so we can chat more about how Cummings was basically commuting between London and Durham while also regularly out and about the county and started doing it while symptomatic with Covid.
The radio silence from ministers and Kuennsberg since the second group of stories broke should be a pretty good clue that he was massively out of order.
The radio silence from ministers and Kuennsberg since the second group of stories broke should be a pretty good clue that he was massively out of order.
It’s the fact that she won’t comment on the story without getting her brief first that is an absolute scandal.
This is hugely embarrassing for the government. If they can't cope without him then they should all go too.
Really highlights what has been quite obvious for a long time. But this particular example is probably the most obvious instance of her purely being an extremly biased Conservative government mouthpiece.
Probably a silly question but with new accusations that he's been to other places, how are they verified?
There is eye witness accounts, one witness actually googled his number plate at the time. Also the police have now contradicted government line and said that they did speak to him.
I love the fact LK has gone completely silent 
(Laura Kuenssberg, not Lorraine Kelly)
This whole thing is so depressing. No chance he walks and no chance it effects the torys negatively. They are somehow untouchable.
Lies lies lies. The government is incompetent & morally corrupt. If you think their Covid response is bad, wait till Brexit is ‘finalized’.
A valiant effort by the Tory stooge on Marr but he knew he was fighting a retreat.
More to come on this, I'm sure.
More to come on this, I'm sure.
It's the repetition that makes them untouchable, if things go unpunished enough then people stop expecting it.
You hold him to account now and then it just increases that expectation when the government next do something wrong.
More cummings and goings than I thought.
Him and his wife infected too while touring UK? It's incredibly irresponsible.
What did Shapps do to deserve to be the whipping boy on this?
If the papers keep pushing the stories he might get the boot if Tory MPs get sick of it dominating the news cycle. Lots of them already hate him.
I dunno. It feels like he runs downing Street.
Shapps isn't cut from the same cloth as Boris, Mogg, Gove etc. He's the grammar school oik who will do anything to please his masters.
He's also more slippery than an otter's cock, just check out some of the shady shit he's got up to over the years.
It is no surprise that they have come out in his defense and have doubled down on the lies. Don't ever forget this is the same mob who lied about 350 million a week to the NHS, lied about Turkey joining the EU, lied about 'oven ready' trade deals, lied about German car manufacturing coming to a halt if UK left the EU, lied about border checks with Northern Ireland, as well as professing what a success they have made of handling the pandemic when they have over 35,000 corpses on their record. These people do not give a solitary feck about you and I as long as they're OK. Never lose sight of that fact when it comes to this current government.
Is part of this a retaliation from the press after the whole "banning certain journalists from briefings" fiasco where they all walked out before it began? Cumbreath (don't care how old I am, I'm sticking with it) must have been behind that decision.
There will be tons of MPs who will want the little cnut to go. He's an idiot who walks around likes he the boss and for sure that will have royally pissed off some of the longer serving MPs and PSs.
There will be tons of MPs who will want the little cnut to go. He's an idiot who walks around likes he the boss and for sure that will have royally pissed off some of the longer serving MPs and PSs.
The current Tory leadership (guided by Cummings) have turned politics into a culture war in which their voters don’t care what they get up to provided they stick to core messages which feed the voter base prejudices.
Cummings might go but only because a significant number of Tory MPs can’t stand him. Not because of quaint notions like ethics or voter outrage.
If my bosses sent me out like this to clean up someone else's mess, I would think they have no respect for me.
Well it's a Guardian and Mirror story and they're left wing papers, so Cummings would be a prime target for them anyway. You've got to imagine that someone that dislikeable has made enemies in all quarters though. I'm sure there are plenty of Tory-aligned journalists, party members and civil servants quite happy to see him get a kicking.
You are right in a way. But I was thinking, a story like this does more damage than others because it is very easy to understand and it affects everyone. Everyone is sick and tired of the lockdown, so to hear some big wigs have been flouting it leaves a bad taste.
I mean because of the drip feeding that we're getting with the story. I like to think that deep down they're all thinking "this is our best chance yet to screw this turd over". Yeah I'd pay for a front row seat to see him getting pummelled by a Justice Horse.