I HAVE the letter from the PM to every household which states: “You should not meet friends or relatives who do not live in your home. You may only leave your home for very limited purposes, such as buying food and medicine, exercising once a day and seeking medical attention. You can travel to and from work but should work from home if you can” ... “These rules must be observed. So, if people break the rules, the police will issue fines and disperse gatherings.”

In the accompanying leaflet, under the heading “Stay at Home”: “There are exceptions – and when doing these activities you should minimise time spent outside of the home and ensure you are two metres apart from anyone outside of your household. Critical workers, and parents of vulnerable children, may leave the house to take their children to and from school or their childcare provider.”

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Under “Symptoms”: “Anyone who has these symptoms must stay at home until the symptoms have ended and in all cases for at least seven days. Everyone else in the household must stay at home for at least 14 days after the first persons symptoms appear, even if they themselves do not have symptoms.”

I cannot comprehend how the PM and ministers can now say Dominic Cummings did not break the rules. He might have got away with it if he had only gone to spare house and been contrite, but after the second trip any credibility or sympathy was blown away. I wonder if he only told about that because there was a credible witness who also noted the car registration number.

Advice was put out after Donald Trump’s bleach advice: do not do it – it may kill you. Now new advice is needed: don’t drive to test your eyesight – it may kill you and others, and don’t claim you anticipated something in your writings but then be found out to have added information the very day you went back to work.

You know the old adage – it is not the incident that damns you, but rather the cover-up.

Winifred McCartney
Paisley