The Tory-backing newspaper is the latest to attack Boris Johnson’s aide. Such criticism will be harder to dismissCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our
Coronavirus coverageWhen the Guardian/Observer and Mirror published fresh claims on Saturday night about Dominic Cummings potentially breaching lockdown rules, Downing Street refused to respond in detail and instead dismissed the outlets as politically motivated “campaigning newspapers”.
It is less clear whether No 10 holds the same dismissive view about the Conservative-supporting Daily Mail, which on Monday used a front-page editorial to demand Cummings is sacked and ran the story across 10 pages of furious coverage.