No.10 says the PM regards the Cummings issue “as closed” because the police have decided not to take action against his senior aide. But Durham Police would have advised Cummings to turn back if they had stopped him on the way to Barnard Castle. In that sense it...
was a breach of the rules, if not a punishable one. It is moot - even within the Tory Party - whether the PM is right to back Cummings. By contrast the public support for Cummings given a few days ago by @SuellaBraverman today looks an even more clear cut breach of her duty...
as attorney general to be impartial. Will she recognise this breach and say sorry?
“There might have been a minor breach of the regulations”. See attached statement from Durham Constabulary. Obviously not the crime or the century. But not the example one of the designers of the lockdown rules would wish to set 
