The National:

TWITTER has reacted in disbelief after Dominic Cummings, the man who flouted lockdown rules to drive hundreds of miles and then refused to apologise on national television, posted a thread on the social media site extolling the virtues of lockdowns.

In a thread which actually makes some sensible arguments, such as that there is no “trade-off” between economic and health outcomes and hard, early lockdowns produce better results all round, Cummings hits out at the Tories’ Covid strategy.

He says that “nonsense” arguments are influencing UK policy on lockdowns and called Westminster’s international borders strategy a “joke”.

But really, we don’t need Cummings to tell us any of this.

All Boris Johnson's former chief adviser has to say is, after all, exactly what real health experts such as Professor Devi Sridhar or Professor Linda Bauld have been telling us all along.

And what’s more, those two eminent public health experts don’t have a reputation which is in the gutter due to their own hypocrisy.

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Cummings was so brash as to not only ignore lockdown rules on multiple occasions, but to tell the entire country that he had driven to the popular tourist town of Barnard Castle not for a day out, but to test his eyesight.

That hasn’t been forgotten by the public.

Responding to Cummings’s sanctimonious and hypocritical Twitter thread, one user wrote: “I can't read this, should I go for a drive first?”

Another asked: “Can you use a bigger font please?” while one Amelie added: “You're not very high on my list of People I Would Take Lockdown Advice From.”

One user wrote: “Hey everyone! Gather round and watch a man desperately trying to rewrite his own history....

“Again…”

The Independent’s Tom Peck said it was “worth bearing in mind the author of this thread explained on live TV how he drove his infected family halfway across the country in the middle of lockdown, and then, by his own account, exposed hospital staff to the virus”.

Another user added simply: “This twitter account was a mistake.”

Maybe it was a mistake, but Cummings has a history of refusing to acknowledge or apologise for any he has made, even if he’s live on TV from Downing Street.