Yep. Johnson digging in. "He has acted responsibly, legally and with integrity."
This is a very instructive moment.
Johnson is willing to accept a very significant weakness in his administration - a gaping political wound - in order to preserve Cummings.
You can almost hear the cheering from Labour HQ.
Christ alive. Imagine you were just finding out who Cummings was, which presumably many normal people are. He looks like a Pixar villain. 
The silent Iain Watson comedy subplot is gold.
Look, lie if you want. But for heaven's sake don't tell us that Cummings took that trip out of a commitment to public health.
Properly incisive questioning from @CharlieCooper8.
You just watched the end of Boris Johnson's post-election honeymoon.
Quite an extraordinary failure of political judgement there. Not just in failing to rebuke him, or failing to hold an inquiry, but in actually going out of his way to praise him, and therefore entangling his own standing with Cummings'.
Then, as if that wasn't enough, coming out with no detailed answers at all to the questions which have been asked. Basically ensuring that the story runs and runs.
He just took a fuck up, fucked it up a little more, then added a good healthy dollop of extra fuck up, and rolled it right on out there.
