I have reported on this because, as Cummings' mother said to me, "I wish reporters would be cognisant of that fact.” Note: No one outside the family can say what childcare was required or why Cummings went to Durham. We are dealing with limited information at present… 2/3
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…this is a complicated issue. The piece attempts to deal with its complexity. Please have a read of it in full. 3/3
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John Laws but he died on 5 April 2020 in London and not Durham
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The problem is there are quite literally tens of thousands of grieving families all over the U.K. who have been unable to be with sick and dying, frightened loved ones, unable to go to funerals, unable to comfort one another in person. Tens of thousands.
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Including the family of a 13 year old boy who died alone and was buried alone.
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This is really fucking desperate. And utterly irrelevant.
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It's like they think they are unique in the respect of having a relative die during this pandemic.
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There has. Thousands of families have been grieving during the months of lockdown. But they obeyed the rules.
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They keep finding additional excuses don't they! Almost as if they don't think the first one they gave is credible!
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New: Why did Dominic Cummings go to Durham?
I spoke to his mother. She told me what no one has yet reported – Cummings’ time in Durham coincided with his uncle’s death.
"We have been a grieving family," she says, "there's been no recognition of that."