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May 2020
Did you contact your MP calling for Dominic Cummings to go?
Did you contact your MP demanding Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister's top aide, to be sacked?
Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Andrew Jones has reportedly called for Mr Cummings to resign or be sacked saying he broke the guidelines- the Stray Ferret cannot remember a time when Mr Jones went against the government whip like this. Was he reacting to the demands of his constituents and his inbox bombarded?
There has been no word from Ripon and Skipton MP, Julian Smith. He was appointed Chief Whip in Theresa May's government from 2017 to July 2019.
Mr Cummings is the centre of a political storm after it was revealed that he travelled from London to Durham with his wife and four year old child during lockdown, when his wife had covid symptoms. One report alleges a witness saw Mr Cummings in Barnard Castle, more than 25 miles from Durham on 12 April.
The prime minister said yesterday at the 5pm coronavirus briefing that he held "extensive" discussions on Sunday with Mr Cummings, who he said "followed the instincts of every father and every parent - and I do not mark him down for that".
But despite Boris Johnson's briefing and senior cabinet members publicly supporting Mr Cummings - a number of backbench MPs have started to call for him to resign. A reflection perhaps of the public mood in their constituencies.
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