Grant Shapps backs Dominic Cummings over lockdown breach
‘In moments of crisis, we seek to have our family around us,’ says transport secretary
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The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has defended the behaviour of Downing Street aide Dominic Cummings, who drove from London to Durham during the lockdown, saying: “In moments of crisis, we seek to have our family around us.”
Cummings travelled to his parents’ property at a time when he believed he may have been infected with Covid-19.
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