Prime minister Boris Johnson faced a grilling this afternoon as he stood by his aide Dominic Cummings amid rising frustration from MPs both inside and outside of the Conservative Party.
The prime minister hit out at MPs in the Commons Liaison Committee as they questioned him over his chief adviser's trip to Durham, claiming that the public did not want the government to focus on 'political ding dong'.
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