Chief nurse Ruth May confirms she was dropped from Number 10 briefing in the midst of controversy over Dominic Cummings's lockdown trips
But Ms May said she didn't know why she was dropped from the press briefing.
Pressed on whether she had been asked, during her preparations for the briefing, to defend Boris Johnson's senior adviser, Ms May replied:"As in at all press briefings, we talk about a lot of these preparation questions.Asked what her views were, at the time, of lockdown and Mr Cummings's actions, she said:"I believe that, in my opinion, the rules were clear and they are there for everyone's safety and they applied to us all.
In a report by the Independent, a"senior NHS source" was quoted as describing how Ms May was asked by a Number 10 adviser how she would answer a question about Mr Cummings. "She refused to play along and told them she would answer the same way as Jonathan Van-Tam," the source was quoted as saying.
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