When the Guardian and the Mirror revealed that Dominic Cummings had travelled to Durham and Barnard Castle during the first lockdown, our stories were dismissed by Downing Street as a “stream of false allegations by campaigning newspapers”. He only denied travelling to Durham a second time on 19 April and claimed he had phone evidence to prove it. It said also there was “insufficient evidence” that Cummings had travelled to Durham a second time. A Durham police review noted there was no evidence from ANPR cameras “in the Durham area on 19 April”. It noted that his denial of a second Durham trip and account of his movements in Barnard Castle were at odds with what several witnesses had claimed.

Source: The Guardian May 22, 2021 06:00 UTC