hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are political commentator, jo phillips, the political editor of the sunday mirror and people, nigel nelson and john stevens, the deputy political editor at the daily mail. tomorrow's front pages starting with. .. the observer leads with what it calls ‘devastating' new claims that the uk prime minister's top aide, dominic cummings, breached lockdown rules more than once. the paper says downing street are under growing pressure to fire the senior adviser. the mirror says dominic cummings made two trips from london to durham at the height of the lockdown — including one trip when his wife was ill with coronavirus symptoms. but the paper says the prime minister still supports his most senior adviser. the telegraph says opposition parties are demanding an urgent inquiry in to mr cummings actions — and several conservative mps are expected to call on the senior

adviser to resign tomorrow. the daily mail carries a quote from the prime minister borisjohnson who — the paper claims — has fended off calls to fire his top aide by telling allies its not like he was visiting a lover. the sunday times agrees that the says the prime minister wants to stand by dominic cummings. it says the pm has insisted he will not throw his most senior adviser ‘to the dogs‘. and the express says borisjohnson will unveil a series of crucial moves to start steering britain safely out of lockdown at the start ofjune — including funds to help high streets. so let's begin... alongside the sunday mirror is carrying on from where the mirror and the guardian took off with these initial claims. and these are fresh claims this time in the observer. that cummings broke that lockdown rules not once, joe phillips, but

twice. yes indeed. it gets worse and worse, because now it appears that not only did he go to durham to stay at his parents for, or in their property, he also came back to london at some point and is now new evidence that has come forward from a witness who claims to have seen dominic cummings with his wife and child in county durham and saw him walking in the woods. this is not actually fitting in with the story that he was ill or his wife was ill and therefore needed to go to get child care for their four—year—old child. it's also going to be much harderfor downing child. it's also going to be much harder for downing street to maintain what has been called this protective arm of borisjohnson around dominic cummings. how long

can aid like this stay in place when the papers are all over a story like this? i think this morning number ten thought they could defend them. they were saying this is not the same as other cases such as when neil ferguson has his lover visited his house. is that he was right about his family and his wife and his young son, and that's why he we nt his young son, and that's why he went to this house. did not actually mixed with his parents and that he isolated himself. to the government clearly thought they could defend him and cling onto him, then we saw the cabinet line up this afternoon to tweet their support for him. now these new stories today question the account that's been given by number ten today. two elements there. numberten this ten today. two elements there. number ten this morning said it was not right that the police had spoken to members of his family about going to members of his family about going to durham. and we had the statement about going to the police and it did

actually speak to his father. as numberten misled actually speak to his father. as number ten misled the public about giving a statement? another thing is at the press conference this afternoon the transfer secretary said that once dominic cummings went to durham he stayed put in that house, he said he did not risk people in durham getting the virus from him or his wife. these accounts in the observer at the sunday mirror tomorrow challenge that, and the gentleman said he them out and about on easter sunday which obviously contradicts the statement that the gave this afternoon. i think of it is shown that other things have not been told the truth of that dominic cummings has misled the prime minister that i think you will have to go. this is with the sun to the mac front page looks like. boris

johnson still stands by his adviser. the transfer secretary is due the andrew marr show tomorrow morning. nigel, how many people who don't follow politics that close they will dominic cummings an even care about this? i think he is more famous than some of the cabinet ministers. his rather extraordinary work a day garb people know who he is. i would've said that dominic cummings probably is the age best known since alastair campbell. so he is a public figure whether he likes it or not, and the result of that i think that people actually will be making a judgement about him. there is a pull out tonight showing that 68% of people think that he was wrong to do what he did. and 52% say he should resign. let's look at the sunday

times. saying johnson refuses to throw his top aide to the dogs. interesting language, isn't it? we know that dominic cummings has been immensely influential. controversy recently that he had gone to the stage meetings as well not as a scientist but as a government adviser. he is privy to the formulation, part of the formation of the guide is that everyone else is asked to follow. that's what makes it worse. he's been sitting on these meetings and been instrumental in developing and advising the prime minister on lockdown. but most of the rest of us have abided by the last eight weeks. again, whether he likes it or not he is in the public eye and to go back to what nigel was just saying he's a very striking looking man which is probably why the gentleman who saw him notice ten

race you could walk past five cabinet ministers and not know them from a bar of soap. there's a question about his level of influence, and i think also asjohn was saying did he tell the truth to number ten? was saying did he tell the truth to numberten? or is was saying did he tell the truth to number ten? or is number ten lying to us? because that's what it comes down to her. but an awful lot of the decisions that people have had to make over the last few weeks, which have been incredibly painfulfor many have been incredibly painfulfor any have been incredibly painfulfor many many families and people working in the front line services. it had to make those decisions based on the benefit given the government of the benefit of the doubt. i don't think the public would expect the prime minister to give dominic cummings the benefit of the doubt when he has behave like the cement so when he has behave like the cement so dismissive and contempt if which we have seen from the clips of his exchange with the press this morning. this cartoon says i cannot sex dominic cummings until he tells

me to. —— sack dominic cummings. there's tweets in support of dominic cummings that have not aged very well, have they? i mean, this morning when they started to put the tweets out dominic cummings had broken the lockdown rules only once, but tonight we know that he has broken them at least three times. borisjohnson talks broken them at least three times. boris johnson talks about saying he thinks the matter is now closed, but it is hardly closed. i think what you might find is more and more people remembering that they have seen dominic cummings out and about, and this story willjust about carry—on having legs. and this story willjust about carry-on having legs. the other sunday times story is revealed. lockdown to the ring led to worst death toll in europe. while we are

talking about a very senior aide to the prime minister of course there's other journalism the prime minister of course there's otherjournalism looking at the missteps and the time wasting that the sunday times says this government indulged in that cost thousands of lives. this is a study that the sunday times had got hold of. looking at the nine dates ahead of. looking at the nine dates ahead of the knock—down measures coming in. it's found that the number of people that were infected in the uk we re over people that were infected in the uk were over 200,000, so people that were infected in the uk were over200,000, 501.5 people that were infected in the uk were over 200,000, so 1.5 million in just those nine days. the suggestion is if we had lockdown much quicker and a bit of much smaller. it would not have spreads away through the country. there will be a great deal of dissection of government policy in years to come, won't there? inevitably. whether it comes to anything orjust inevitably. whether it comes to anything or just be inevitably. whether it comes to anything orjust be another one of

those expensive and long drawn out inquiries which lead to nothing, i think this is an unprecedented time for governments around the world. it's a real test of how a government can work, and it's quite clear that this government is unraveling on so many things, and the public were willing to give government the benefit of the doubt at the beginning because nobody had ever had to deal with anything like this. as more information comes out about the advice that was given, the advice that was ignored for the advice that was ignored for the advice where it has been taken from whether it's been second opinions sought there will be some huge questions about the judgement calls that the government made. and i think it's very interesting to see how the new labour leader is playing this, because he is doing it in a very forensic way, and he is calling the government to account in a way

that no —— may frustrate some people. but in actual fact they're going to run. it should have been enough, the premise are talking to his cabinet colleagues about how to get shops reopened to get the country back onto the next stage of using lockdown. this story is eclipsing that. if you are asking the public to continue to make sacrifices you cannot do it when you're not being honest about how you're not being honest about how you are making the decisions. how does borisjohnson then get back onto the front foot over the dominic cummings story? also are keeping eve ryo ne cummings story? also are keeping everyone onside staying alert as the message has become whilst also trying to lift restrictions so that the economy is not further damaged?

this is the tricky bit. this is the question about schools going back that people cannot get back to work oi' that people cannot get back to work or parents cannot get to work until schools are up and running, so we can understand the borisjohnson is trying very hard to and lockdown as sooi'i trying very hard to and lockdown as soon as he can. the problem we have got and with this story shows is that we now know that he brought lockdown in far too late is why we have the highest death toll in europe, and the suspicion that's growing lifted too early. we a real confidence and then when this all began the more we learn about the mistakes that have been made that confidence drains away. much more difficult to get the public to comply with the various rules he wants them to. let's look at the

mail on sunday. boris, it's not like he was visited a lover? when did he say that? he has told someone this. the support for conservative mps may continue. a lot of tory mps tweeting sympathetically and supportively about dominic cummings, and i think the tory withrow messaging a lot of them telling them to do it if possible. i was so that line—up of cabinet ministers and a lot of them have not aged well and so that dominic cummings had for that the guidelines looking after his family, and of story. in some of those cabinet ministers may not feel that they have the full information when they have the full information when they were told to send up those messages today. they feel that

they've not been out tweeting today. i will be interesting to see if they say supportive things and will it be time for dominic cummings to go? councils must justified not reopening schools. there are quite a few schools say we are not ready and not going to be opening on the date we have specified. this is in england because scotland, northern ireland and wales will make their owi'i ireland and wales will make their own decisions. we are talking about 50 councils now saying they will not reopen. i think they have got a point. it's for the government to make the case for them opening rather than demand councils to answer why they want. the schools have obviously got to go back and

have obviously got to go back and have gone back in an incredibly strange way. wanting to get them back first because the younger the child is the worse it is if education is interrupted. it is difficult to understand why year sixes were chosen to go back. that la st sixes were chosen to go back. that last month of term there were not doing any learning, they have activities in deep and deeper not learning. i think parents are saying hang on, how did you choose this? why are you doing it this way and broadly it will not help get parents back to work because an awful lot of kids will still be off. will a children's parents get into trouble if they don't send their kids? government as quickly as saying that anyone that chooses not to send their children to school will not

get any fines or get