PM’S aide has utter contempt for us all

“THERE cannot be one law for the Prime Minister’s staff and another for everyone else.” The words of Tory pro-brexit MP Steve Baker. He complained strongly that the PM’S senior adviser Dominic Cummings “keeps burning through Boris’s political capital at a rate we can ill-afford in the midst of this crisis”.

Why on Earth did he travel 200 miles with coronavirus? One commentator queried: “Cummings did not have a single person in London who could drop food outside his door? Is he the most friendless human being in the world?”

More likely, he is an extremely arrogant person, who holds the rest of the country in total contempt. Normal rules and laws do not apply to him.

His actions are the biggest problem yet for the Government’s coronavirus strategy — a kick in the teeth to the millions who have struggled to cope with the limitations and mental issues of lockdown.

The whole issue had been caused by Boris Johnson’s carelessness in shaking hands with coronavirus patients, directly against the Government’s own guidelines. Johnson became seriously infected and then Cummings caught the disease from him.

More important than the infected Cummings flouting the lockdown rules was the risk of them actually spreading the disease like some latter-day Typhoid Marys.

The Cummings had put their own concerns above the health and wellbeing of ordinary, law-abiding people, who would not dream of ignoring the Government guidelines that Dominic Cummings himself had helped formulate.

PETER MILORY By email