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Dominic Cummings will keep his
Job as Boris Johnson’s top aide, the prime minister has confirmed.
The PM says he had "extensive face to face" discussions with the former Vote Leave boss and that Cummings acted "responsibly, legally and with integrity".
The decision to keep Cummings in Downing Street comes despite claims he twice defied the PM’s Covid-19 “stay at home” restrictions.
The PM is likely to face anger from the public,
Labour and his own Tory backbenchers, who broke ranks on Sunday to demand Cummings go.
It emerged on Friday that Cumming travelled 260 miles to Durham to self-isolate at his parents’ home in March.
Number 10 had initially defended him, saying the trip was justified as Cummings, who later tested positive for Covid-19, needed help with childcare for his four-year-old son.
Reports in the Sunday Mirror and Observer today, however, claimed that Cummings returned to County Durham on April 19 and witnesses saw him in a town called Barnard Castle.
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