I DIDN’T join with Michael Gove as he laughed at his own defence of an aide. He came up with about the most implausible answer possible because for some reason he couldn’t say that Dominic Cummings’s claim he had driven to test if his eyesight was good enough for him to drive was palpable nonsense.

In the middle of the most serious crisis the country has faced in living memory, when government ministers should be giving interviews on life-and-death matters, we were watching Gove, a senior member of the UK Government, behaving like a bairn caught with his hand stuck in the sweetie jar struggling to justify a ludicrous statement by Cummings, a special adviser who should never have been allowed a press conference from 10 Downing Street that undermined the government’s authority during this crisis.

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Cummings should have been quietly removed from his position two months ago before his trip to County Durham became public knowledge.

The public needs to know why the entire Cabinet is switching from fighting the pandemic to defending a special adviser who has brought an enormous amount of unnecessary attention to himself and his employer.

What is Dominic Cummings’s real position in the UK Government?

John Jamieson
South Queensferry