Furore rages on over UK PM’s defence of top aide’s curb flout

London, May 25: The furore surrounding top Downing Street aide Dominic Cummings’ perceived breach of the Covid-19 lockdown rules by travelling 260 miles to his parents’ home refused to die down on Monday.

The Opposition branded

British PM Boris Johnson’s defence of Cummings as an “insult” to all the sacrifices made by the British public during the pandemic, with a growing number of parliamentarians within Johnson’s own Conservative Party calling for his Chief Strategy Adviser

to be sacked.

“This was a test of the PM and he has failed it. It is an insult to sacrifices made by the British people that Boris Johnson has chosen to take no action against Dominic Cummings,” said Keir Starmer of the Labour Party.