Adam, Laura, Fergus and Chris discuss Dominic Cummings’s rose garden moment in Downing Street. Did he do enough to deal with the criticism? Plus, good news for shops (and shoppers?)
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0:04.8 | So Chris, I was trying to think, hang on, |
0:06.8 | as a Downing Street Special Advisor, |
0:08.7 | or any Special Advisor, kind of political advisor, |
0:11.7 | done a news conference, a press conference in front of the |
0:15.5 | cameras during controversy in the past. |
0:17.9 | I think I was having a quick look at |
0:23.1 | Twitter about this earlier on and somebody said it was way before my time but |
0:24.2 | somebody said that they thought that Joe Moore who was a |
0:28.4 | Department of Transport Special Advisor and around the time of 9-11 and |
0:31.5 | talked about it being a good data |
0:32.6 | very bad news did do something on camera but not quite along the lines of what |
0:38.0 | we've seen today. Well because I realized all the examples I then quoted to my |
0:41.9 | friends on |
0:43.0 | what's-app was actually episodes of the thick of it and they're not real. |
0:47.0 | Which kind of gets to the point, doesn't it? |
0:49.0 | Yeah, that today was quite unreal. |
0:51.0 | Dominic Cummings, senior advisor, the Prime Minister, Downing Street, kind of backroom fixer, |
0:56.8 | on camera talking in minute detail about what he and his family did and didn't do a couple |
1:02.1 | of weeks ago when they were ill. |
1:04.1 | Our child needed the toilet, he was in the back seat of the car. |
1:07.3 | We pulled over to the side of the road. My wife and child jumped out into the woods by the |
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