More than 1 million people sign petition demanding Dominic Cummings is sacked

More than one million people have signed a petition calling for Dominic Cummings to be sacked over allegedly breaching the lockdown rules.

Despite Downing Street's attempts to shift focus away from the row, hundreds of thousands of people added their names to the petition demanding that the prime minister's chief aide should go.

Boris Johnson is standing by his top adviser amid controversy of Mr Cummings' decision to drive 260-miles to his parents house in Durham at the height of lockdown.

While there, Mr Cummings also made a 25-mile trip to Barnard Castle, which he sought to justify by claiming he wanted to test his eyesight ahead of the much longer drive back to London so he could resume his work at No 10.

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