cabinet secretary, so did many other senior people short time ago in parliament. prime minister maurice johnson responded to dominic cummings accusations. the handling of this pandemic has been one of the most difficult things these countries had to do for a very long time. and none of the decisions have been easy to get into a lockdown is a traumatic thing. for a country to deal with a panel on this scale has been appallingly difficult and we've, at every stage, i tried to minimize loss of life to save lives. and we felt like the best scientific advice that we, we can buy that's london. let's get more financing to miss jona. how this testament has been going on for hours now. what else has cummings had to say and what's the significance of it, jonah? yes, i'm still. i'm going after several hours, scintillating testimony from dominic cummings. how important it will turn out to be will of course depend on how much it dominates the news, a gender the days to come. and how much of that drips down and actually embeds with the public. many of whom, of course, would have made up their minds about eve