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  1. Pinned Tweet
    1 hour ago

    If anything does for Cummings, it will be the stories of other people's endurance. The unattended funerals. The unvisited parents. The struggles to look after our kids while we were sick. Every family in the land has paid a price. And he sees it all as being somehow beneath him.

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  2. Retweeted
    25 minutes ago

    So far today Downing Street has undermined the lockdown; the health secretary has undermined public health efforts; the attorney general has undermined respect for the law. All to protect one powerful aide.

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  3. 3 minutes ago

    They need to start saying “piss off” publicly or it will haunt them forever.

    Operation Save Dom steps up. Mid-ranking ministers and backbenchers now being asked by Tory whips to tweet support for Cummings, for “basically looking after his family”. One MP: “I told them to piss off”.
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  4. Retweeted
    20 minutes ago

    We moan and groan about Trump and Orban. But it is happening here folks. When the Attorney General thinks that is an appropriate use of her time and office, to cut and paste the pathetic No 10 line, then our democracy is in trouble.

    The attorney general here, yes the most senior law officer in govt, basically contradicting the police who felt this matter required their time. Ditto every other cabinet minister.
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  5. Retweeted
    5 hours ago

    If I was confident that my actions were lawful and in accordance with government guidance, it would be odd for me not to declare them at the time. Even odder to conspicuously fail to mention them in those detailed “what we’re doing in lockdown” pieces my family did in the press.

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    20 minutes ago

    How interesting that , Lord Chancellor with the constitutional duty to uphold the rule of law, has not joined the Attorney General in tweeting support for Cummings

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  7. Retweeted
    1 hour ago
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    We broke the lockdown. Our teenage son was dying & our younger son needed looking after so we could both be with him. We agonised & spoke to numerous medical staff to make sure it was allowed. We carried doctors’ letters. These were ‘exceptional childcare circumstances’.

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  8. Retweeted
    43 minutes ago

    We the campaign are responding directly to comments made by yesterday. We have a simple solution for the Treasury to prevent thousands of businesses going under. Watch here

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    50 minutes ago

    So: both the Secretary of State who issued the Coronavirus regulations, and the Attorney General who superintends all Crown Prosecution Service prosecutions under those regulations, have today declared a brand new defence to offences under the regulations To help out Cummings

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  10. 50 minutes ago

    Boris Johnson faced a simple choice this morning. He could offer his support to *his own strategy*, designed to protect the entire United Kingdom - or he could offer it to Dominic Cummings. Not so shocked by what he did but flabbergasted by the support it's received from Cabinet.

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  11. Retweeted
    57 minutes ago

    BREAKING: Attorney-General supports rule-breaking. 👇

    Protecting one’s family is what any good parent does. The statement clarifies the situation and it is wholly inappropriate to politicise it.
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  12. 56 minutes ago

    Patel retweeted Raab's defence of Cummings but I couldn't see it because he blocked me after we put together this little collection of his finest moments.

    7:22
    James O'Brien takes a look at Tory leadership hopeful Dominic Raab's interviews and pulls them apart one-by-one.
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    1 hour ago
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  14. 1 hour ago

    If they can't blame it on muslims, migrants or 'Brussels' they really haven't got a clue what to do, have they?

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  15. 1 hour ago

    Nothing from yet.

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  16. 1 hour ago

    It really is.

    The implication of every single tweet from the cabinet about how much Cummings cares about his wife and child is that you don’t care about yours.
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  17. 1 hour ago

    Any sensible answers to the question of why 'Dominic Cummings' isn't trending?

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  18. 1 hour ago

    This is the point. This is the problem. Supporters can kid themselves they haven't been taken for mugs but, crucially, they can't turn it into something that only bothers or affects the 'other side'.

    Replying to @mrjamesob
    He's made fools of us all. I'm so angry
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  19. 1 hour ago

    Sunak's the big surprise for me. He's had a 'good war', is basically unsackable at the moment & started the year unknown enough to enjoy a bit of insulation from the imminent debunking of all the Vote Leave lies. Maybe coronavirus isn't the only infection to sweep Downing Street.

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    2 hours ago
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    Imagine how helpful it would have been to many people for the government to tell us, in March, that if you think you might need to self-isolate, it’s fine to travel 200 miles and to stay with or close to elderly parents and other relatives. Not least when the guidance said this:

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