By Lucy Campbell (now); Simon Murphy (earlier)
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11.16am BST
The veteran Tory MP Sir Roger Gale said the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee should make it clear to Boris Johnson that Dominic Cummings should go.
I want the 1922 Committee to put pressure on the PM. They need to say that this has gone too far and there is huge public backlash in what has happened & the way it has been handled. The time I think, has come for Mr Cummings to resign or for the PM to dispense of his services. pic.twitter.com/YxouHAmPEz
The time I think has come for Mr Cummings to resign or for the PM to dispense of his services.
There are people on the 1922 executive who are courageous, and that’s their job.
They are elected to tell the PM what he needs to hear, not what he wants to hear.
While as a father and as a grandfather I fully appreciate Mr Cummings’ desire to protect his child. There cannot be one law for the Prime Minister’s staff and another for everyone else. He has sent out completely the wrong message and his position is no longer tenable.
How can I go on asking people to show self restraint when a very senior member of the government isn’t?
11.10am BST
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