Boris Johnson is preparing to face a super committee of MPs over his protection of Dominic Cummings, as pressure builds for his top aide to be sacked and the government’s popularity appears to sink.
The prime minister will be grilled by a senior group of politicians known as the liaison committee at 4pm on Wednesday, which will be the first time he has faced them since he won the job 10 months ago.
He is facing calls from at least 30 of his own MPs to sack Mr Cummings for making three trips during the lockdown, which the adviser says were to seek childcare help from his family in Durham.
One government minister has already quit in protest and the housing secretary admitted “many people across the country” are also aggrieved.
But he insisted Mr Cummings “acted reasonably” and “did obey the guidelines”.
However, even some of the newest intake of Tory MPs have spoken out, with Stoke-on-Trent North’s Jonathan Gullis saying Mr Cummings’s actions mean the lockdown message “has been undermined”.
