What does Dominic Cummings have over Boris? Piers Morgan asks

Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan has questioned if Boris Johnson’s chief adviser has anything over the prime minister after he backed him.

The PM chose to front the daily coronavirus press conference on Sunday to publicly support Cummings, saying he had ‘acted responsibly, legally and with integrity’ by driving from London to County Durham during the lockdown.

Johnson added ‘any parent would frankly understand what he did’.

Morgan reacted angrily to the prime minister’s defence of his adviser. 

He tweeted: ‘What does this lying hypocrite know that means you’re prepared to risk the public’s health, and lives, to stop him blabbing? Genuinely curious.’

Morgan added in relation to the press conference: ‘That was a f*cking disgrace.

‘The rules were crystal clear and people missed weddings, births, deaths and funerals to respect them.

‘For @BorisJohnson to stand there & bare-faced lie to save his lying hypocrite aide is a slap in the face to everyone who obeyed the rules he enforced.’

The GMB host also shared an image of the funeral of Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, 13, who died from coronavirus in March.

The schoolboy’s family were unable to attend because of lockdown restrictions.

He added: ‘This poor boy’s family stayed away from his deathbed and funeral because they obeyed the [Government] rules.

‘Imagine how that family is feeling now, knowing that all they had to do was follow their 

‘instinct”, not the rules? You’re a disgrace @BorisJohnson. RIP Ismail.’

Morgan also called Cummings a ‘hypocrite’ adding it was ‘one rule for these clowns and another for the rest of us.’

Cummings travelled to County Durham in March to self-isolate with his family while official guidelines warned against long-distance journeys, apparently because he feared that he and his wife would be left unable to care for their son.

Further reports also suggested he took a second trip to the North East in April, having already returned to London following his recovery from coronavirus, a disease which has seen more than 45,000 people in the UK die after contracting it, according to the latest available data.

Cummings denied the fresh allegations, which were reported by the Observer and the Sunday Mirror, and Mr Johnson declared he would be standing by his most senior adviser.

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