THE Dominic Cummings story is so ridiculous as to be clearly an obfuscation, and we risk not seeing through it. The master of the dead cat has become the dead cat himself, so we should look through the fog for the answers to three questions.
What is the Dominic Cummings story meant to draw our attention away from? No-one, together with their wife, suffering from the symptoms of coronavirus would undertake a 250-mile car journey on such a preposterous pretext. What was the real reason for the journey? No Tory in history has ever stood by someone from loyalty. What dirt does Dominic Cummings have on Boris Johnson?
Ian Richmond
Dumfries and Galloway
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MY my, don’t the Tories just love a diversion? I just wonder what is being done in our name that they need time to finalise and cover up. What has really been going on while we’ve all been just trying to survive? Also, if both Cummings and Boris were ill at the same time, was the country just left to steam on? If so, who noticed any difference?
Anne Borthwick
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