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Dominic Cummings row spurs Brighton vicar to quiz cabinet minister on live TV

by Frank le Duc
Tuesday 26 May, 2020 at 7:28PM
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Dominic Cummings row spurs Brighton vicar to quiz cabinet minister on live TV

The Rev Martin Poole

A Brighton vicar questioned cabinet minister Matt Hancock as the Health Secretary fronted the daily 10 Downing Street coronavirus press conference this afternoon (Tuesday 26 May).

The Rev Martin Poole

Martin Poole, the vicar of St Luke’s Prestonville, asked: “Will the government review all penalty fines imposed on families travelling for childcare purposes during lockdown?”

Mr Hancock said that he would send a written answer to Mr Poole who asked his question as the row over Dominic Cummings rumbles on.

Mr Cummings, the chief adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, drove to Durham with his wife and son during the coronavirus lockdown.

He said that he wanted to ensure his son would be cared for if he and his wife were not able to look after him because they were ill with covid-19.

Mr Johnson said: “In every respect, he has acted responsibly, legally and with integrity.”

The Prime Minister added that Mr Cummings had “followed the instincts of every father and every parent and I do not mark him down for that”.

In reply to Mr Poole this afternoon, Mr Hancock said: “It’s a very good question and we do understand the impact and the need for making sure that children get adequate childcare.

“That is one of the significant concerns that we’ve had all the way through this and so, I think, especially coming from a man of the cloth, I think that (it’s) perfectly reasonable to take away that question.

“I’ll have to talk to my Treasury colleagues before I can answer it in full and we’ll look at it and if we can get your details we will make sure that we write to you with a full answer and make an announcement from this podium.

“I think we can make that commitment.”

Mr Poole said afterwards that he had sent in his question a few days ago.

He said: “I was pleased that he was honest enough to say that he didn’t know the answer and would go away and look at it. I hope they do come back with something.”

He added that he hoped that they would look again at the cases of those who had received fines.

Mr Poole said that his question was a reflection of what many people felt “and the mood of many people I’m talking to, wanting things to be fair and a level playing field for us all”.

He said that it was up to Dominic Cummings whether he should resign but added: “Many other people have resigned for causing less discussion.”

There was a lot of heat around the subject, he said, and it was proving an unfortunate distraction.

Mr Poole said: “There’s a bigger issue. What does it say about laws in general?”

For example, could the hungry justify shoplifting because they were using their parental intuition or instincts?

He may not have mentioned the Pharisees and Sadducees but it was hard not to sense parallels with New Testament portrayals of those who burdened others with laws while finding ways around those laws themselves.

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  1. john senders says:
    3 years ago

    Rev Martin as hit the nail on the head

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  2. John Walker says:
    3 years ago

    very sadden to see a man of the cloth, Rev Martin Poole meddling and expressing his views in the media and government,on the Cummings affair, I hope one day that he may put the same effort into exposing and bringing the truth about the, abuse and harm that has been done to many thousands of young and very vunrable children and young adults, and the fact that the church had been hiding the fact for many many years. Cant believe the joint effort of all media to inflict as much damage as is possible on the Cummings family, it really is undeserved. I personally think the main reson for the majority of this is the fact the Mr D Cummings involvement in the Torys and his involvement in the coming out of Europe.

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  3. Miss Janet May Brooks says:
    3 years ago

    Even if guilty, wouldn’t it just have been a £60 fine offence?

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  4. William Old says:
    3 years ago

    Despite the BBC refusing to correct any of its stories, A Fixed Penalty Notice is NOT A FINE!!! If the fixed penalty is paid, you can’t be convicted of the alleged offence – only a Court, after hearing the evidence, can then decide to fine anyone. And if you’re given a Fixed Penalty Notice by a community support officer, ask for a trial, because in England and Wales the Coronavirus Regulations include “police community support officer” as an “authorised officer” – but there’s no such thing in law, Section 38(2) of the Police Reform Act 2002 created the legal definition of a “community support officer”. Note: NOT a “police” community support officer… it was David Blunkett who wanted you to think of them as a “PCSO”, not Parliament!

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