Tory anger at Dominic Cummings grows as 61 MPs defy Boris Johnson
MPs break ranks to criticise PM’s chief of staff, with 44 calling for him to quit or be sacked
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More than 60 Conservative MPs have continued to defy Boris Johnson’s calls to “move on” from the Dominic Cummings crisis as a senior minister broke ranks to accuse the aide of inconsistencies in his account of his behaviour during lockdown.
The intervention of Penny Mordaunt deepened the turmoil within government following revelations by the Guardian and Daily Mirror that Cummings had travelled 260 miles to his family estate in Durham with his wife suffering coronavirus symptoms.
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