There are staff at nursing and care homes – paid a tiny fraction of Cummings’ salary – many have children – who literally moved in and slept there so as to avoid spreading the virus to their residents.

— Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 (@xandvt) May 24, 2020

Thanks for the clarification. Does this mean your government is cancelling all 14000 lockdown fines this week? https://t.co/zGkKhsYARx

— Netpol (@netpol) May 24, 2020

I’m actually more angry at the ministers defending him, using the emotionally manipulative “good father” reasoning as if everyone who was comploed with the rules THEY made, is a bad parent. As if many sick parents wouldn’t have loved to send their toddler to their parents.

— Rachel Parris (@rachelparris) May 23, 2020

We must remember is all of this that while there is a temptation to make Cummings the absolute villain, Boris Johnson and the cabinet are in charge, how they handle this is what matters. Do they care more about us or themselves?

— Jess Phillips MP (@jessphillips) May 24, 2020