UK coronavirus live: Tory MPs call for Dominic Cummings to go
Conservative MPs call for advisor to resign amid revelations of further breaches of lockdown rules
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An unnamed Bournemouth player has tested positive for Covid-19, the Premier League club announced Sunday, becoming the eighth case involving an English top-flight club.
Bournemouth added the player’s identity would not be disclosed due to “medical confidentiality” and that he would self-isolate for seven day, according to AFP.
SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford told Sky: “[Cummings] has to go and the prime minister has to sack him.”
Cummings had broken lockdown regulations, he said, broken advice everyone had been given by the government.
“He has to go and the Prime Minister has to sack him.”@Ianblackford_MP has called on Boris Johnson to “appear at the press conference this afternoon” and answer questions surrounding accusations Dominic Cummings broke the lockdown rules.
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