As a father of 2 and a grandfather of 3, I can certainly understand the instinct of wanting to protect your children. When the lockdown was first announced, I imagine thoughts of whether our families would be safe and how the Government’s restrictions would impact our ability to offer support played upon our minds more than anything else.

However, Dominic Cummings took a course of action that not only wasn’t available to the vast majority of people struggling with restrictions, but which in the eyes of myself and many other people went against the guidance and undermined the message of Stay at Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives.

During this crisis, many of my constituents have had to struggle with varied and challenging circumstances and have followed the government’s guidelines, sometimes to the detriment of their own wellbeing, but in the belief that it would benefit common health and wellbeing of our city and country.

While I believe his position is untenable, I think at the very least Dominic Cummings owes you and the rest of the British people who have made extraordinary sacrifices over the last weeks an apology.

It was clear from his conference on that this is not forthcoming. I found that the press conference was unconvincing and raised more questions than it answered about Cummings’ transgressions and by any normal reckoning his position would be untenable.

It seems to be one rule for Boris Johnson’s advisers and another for everyone else.