(Letter addressed to West Dorset MP Chris Loder)

I am writing to express my disgust at the senior Government adviser Dominic Cummings and the support for him from the PM and senior members of your Government.

He had admitted to several breaches to the lockdown that he was involved in planning and urging the rest of the public to follow. He has given several fantastical excuses for this behaviour which involves transporting himself, his wife and his child across the country while having symptoms of CV-19.

This is the very thing that we, the rest of the public, were exhorted to do and which many people did, to great emotional expense to themselves.

One reason for driving was to test whether his eyesight was affected by CV-19 - thereby putting his wife, child and members of the public who were also on the road at risk. He visited a hospital in the North East potentially spreading the virus there.

His suggestion that he was following the rules because of concern for his child just do not hold up. Those exceptions were for the case of a child in an abusive situation which is clearly not the case here and it is hard to believe that he couldn’t have found some level of child support in London.

Furthermore lots of other people are having to deal with the virus while looking after children.

I wonder how you would feel if someone was to come down to Dorset to a second house or their parents house potentially spreading the virus here and also putting a load on the local health service. You have stated that people should not do that under any circumstances so I hope you will speak out about this. (Read West Dorset MP Chris Loder's opinion here)

So I hope you agree that his position is untenable as someone who is seen as key adviser to the Government and an architect of the health messages which he has so successfully undermined.

PHIL GRICE

Burton Bradstock