Rob and Tom discuss the lockdown breaking government advisor Dominic Cummings, the government response and the effect this has had on Boris’ popularity.

Topics

• [0:00] Intro

• [2:13] Main Story: Dominic Cummings

• [18:50] The First Press Conference

• [27:49] The Second Press Conference

• [39:20] What Has This Cost Boris?

• [41:41] Ad: Hat Of Many Things

• [42:15] Quick Polls Update

• [50:23] Outro

• [51:09] Bonus: Sung Intro Practice

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Shownotes

• ITV: Timeline: How the Dominic Cummings controversy unfolded

• Bishop: ‘Sack Cummings, or the Church of England will no longer work with Government’

• Tomorrow’s Papers Today: Daily Mail Headline

• BBC: Boris Johnson backs key aide Dominic Cummings in lockdown row

• Channel 4 News: Dominic Cummings explains lockdown trip - press conference by PM's senior adviser

• BBC: Dominic Cummings: Minister Douglas Ross quits over senior aide's lockdown actions

• Twitter: Boris Approval

• Savanta: Coronavirus Data Tracker

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Attribution

• Recording engineer: Ennuicastr

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Dominic Cummings by Trending Topics 2019 used under CC by 2.0