there was nobody in london that we could reasonably ask to look after our child and expose themselves to covid. but today he revealed another version of events. my wife called saying, there s a gang of people outside saying they re going to break into the house and kill everybody inside. so it was actually repeated security threats which prompted the move to durham. but when the story erupted, mr cummings decided not to mention that. now, at this point i madejust a terrible, terrible, terrible mistake, which i m extremely sorry about. so i ended up giving the whole rose garden thing where what i said was true, but we left out a kind of crucial part of it all. and just the whole thing was a complete disaster, and the truth is, it undermined public confidence in the whole thing. the most bizarre part of mr cummings s original story was the now infamous drive to barnard castle to test his eyesight after being ill with covid. if i was going to make up a story,
covid. weeks later, in the rose garden at downing street, he was forced to explain. i was worried that if my wife and i were both seriously ill, possibly hospitalised, there was nobody in london that we could reasonably ask to look after our child and expose themselves to covid. but today he revealed another version of events. my wife called saying, there s a gang of people outside saying they re going to break into the house and kill everybody inside. so it was actually repeated security threats which prompted the move to durham. but when the story erupted, mr cummings decided not to mention that. now, at this point i madejust a terrible, terrible, terrible mistake, which i m extremely sorry about. so i ended up giving the whole rose garden thing where what i said was true, but we left out a kind of crucial part of it all. and just the whole thing was a complete disaster, and the truth is, it undermined public confidence in the whole thing. the most bizarre part of mr cummings s ori
and the truth is, it undermined public confidence in the whole thing. the most bizarre part of mr cummings s original story was the now infamous drive to barnard castle to test his eyesight after being ill with covid. if i was going to make up a story, i d have come up with a hell of a lot better story than that one, right? you were testing your eyesight with your wife and child in the car with you? it didn t seem crazy at the time. obviously i wish i had never heard of barnard castle and i wish i d never gone, and i wish the whole nightmare had never happened. after his evidence today, it s his colleague still in government who will be having nightmares. vicki young, bbc news, westminster. let s speak to our political correspondent, damian grammaticus. seven hours and an awful lot of questions and answers. did he leave us any clearer as to the critique, the overall critique that dominic cummings has of the way government
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