Dominic Cummings to make public statement this afternoon

[jon1959]

And it probably needs to be repeated, they were all within his own statement.

They are also trying to use the "fake stories in the media" line, but the most inaccurate accounts in the media were those written by him and his wife in the spectator.

Deliberately misleading? Some may conclude that.

The initial guardian/mirror reporting looks to be pretty accurate.

It is a desperate defence.

Most of the newspaper claims were confirmed by Cummings himself. The only significant one to have been dropped was the allegation (never presented as fact) that he had gone back up to Durham a week after returning to London.

The main problem with blaming 'false stories' is that Cummings had an hour in the Downing Street garden in front of the world's media to give his own version of events - and the result was that a big majority of the public became more convinced that he had broken the rules and should be sacked!