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So according to @bbclaurak hints on podcast Cummings is saying he will only resign if he is still front page news this Sunday. Exposes once more his venality that there is no judgement of right/wrong, or damage to country or public health messaging, just the news agenda 1/4
@BorisJohnson = emperor no clothes and ever clearer Cummings alsojust not very bright and certainly totally lacking in that commonsense thing Johnson blathers on about. Anyway Sunday paper journalists, if you need any help at digging out stories, give me a call 2/4
Vallance/Whitty views Saturday morning could do it. Maybe offer a 6/7 figure column deal (like the one Johnson will get at @Telegraph when he goes) to the first cabinet minister who locates a spine. Above all find the human stories of sacrifice of those who abided by rules 3/4
Finally the international comparisons, not just of numbers, but of policies along the way, are getting some attention but not enough. If I was editor Sunday broadsheet I would think of 8 page special just on that. These people have killed people. Got to be held to account 4/4
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No idea what Cummings is going to say but if they are, as suggested at weekend, going to play what they refer to as ‘the trump card’ of a child’s condition, they may well create the exact opposite effect on public opinion that they seek. What we are seeing here is what happens1/2
when incompetence and venality come together. The fact that in the middle of this crisis, @BorisJohnson desperation to cling on to Cummings is reducing government to a gibbering wreck is beyond any rational belief or sense of competence 2/3
Government should be focused on track, test and trace. On helping business and families. On schools. Instead they are running around like headless chickens to save Durham Dom. And remember this - many many families have members with exceptional needs - who obeyed the rules 3/3
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Re Cummings press event, a note to Cabinet Secretary and to chair of the lobby. 1. Cummings, an unelected adviser, should not use same venue/format as ministers/scientists. 2. As it is personal he should not be associated with any government messaging related to the crisis. 1/3
3. It should be a socially distanced event so questions are asked/answered face to face. 4. After his statement the media not Cummings should decide who asks questions. 5. As lobby chair @PippaCrerar should chair this q and a 6. No 10 cannot exclude @DailyMirror @guardian 2/3
7. There should be no limit in either time or number for follow up questions. Journalists will confirm that this was the approach taken in the past when unelected advisers faced the media 3/3
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This ‘was it the sister was it the parents?’ bullshit is a classic little Trumpian distraction tactic. He was infected and put others at risk(unlike Ferguson and Calderwood) It is as clear and dangerous a breach of lockdown rules as you could imagine and worse than those two. 1/3
Then there is the question of whether @BorisJohnson was among ‘the small number of people in Number 10’ @bbclaurak ‘source’ tells us knew Cymmings had headed north while infected. They are concocting the line on that one as we speak. About to post a piece for @TweetTheArticle 2/3
Headline in the area of ‘Lying, hypocrisy and incompetence ... the reasons why Johnson should sack Cummings are the reasons he will do everything in his power not to.’ Let’s see if the once speechless Hancock can find his voice and the rest of them can find a spine 3/3
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