UK PM Johnson resists calls to 解雇（する） Cummings over 400 km 運動
By Guy Faulconbridge
LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - British 総理大臣 Boris Johnson resisted calls on Saturday from 野党s to 解雇（する） 上級の 助言者 Dominic Cummings after he travelled 400 km (250 miles) to northern England while his wife showed COVID-19 symptoms.
Cummings, who 操るd the 2016 （選挙などの）運動をする to leave the European Union during the Brexit 国民投票, travelled to Durham in late March, when a strict lockdown was already in place.
Johnson's office said Cummings made the 旅行 to 確実にする his 4-year-old son could be 適切に cared for as his wife was ill with COVID-19 and there was a "high 見込み" that Cummings would himself become unwell.
"I behaved reasonably and 合法的に," Cummings told reporters outside his house after telling them to stay 2 metres apart in 一致 with 政府 指導基準s.
Asked if he would consider his position, he said: "明白に not." He then chided reporters for 存在 wrong about the result of the 2016 Brexit 国民投票.
"You guys are probably all about as 権利 about that as you were about Brexit: do you remember how 権利 you all were about that?" Cummings said.
大臣s 発言する／表明するd support for the 上級の 助言者.
"I can tell you that the PM 供給するs Mr Cummings with his 十分な support," 輸送（する） 長官 認める Shapps told reporters, 追加するing that he did not know when the 首相 設立する out about the 旅行.
負かす／撃墜するing Street said Cummings' "活動／戦闘s were in line with coronavirus 指導基準s" and said the 後見人 and the Mirror newspapers, which first 報告（する）／憶測d the story, had made "誤った 主張s".
"They are 令状ing more 不確かの stories 含むing （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that Mr Cummings returned to Durham after returning to work in 負かす／撃墜するing Street on 14 April," 負かす／撃墜するing Street said. "We will not waste our time answering a stream of 誤った 主張s about Mr Cummings from （選挙などの）運動をするing newspapers."
In another, later 報告（する）／憶測, the Daily Mirror sai d Cummings made a second trip from London during the lockdown and was spotted 近づく Durham on April 19, days after returning to London from his first trip.
Cummings 否定するd making a second trip to his family in Durham during the lockdown, 述べるing the Mirror's 報告（する）／憶測 as "全く 誤った", the Telegraph newspaper said late on Saturday.
'SACK CUMMINGS'
野党s called for Johnson to 解雇（する） Cummings and 労働 called on the country's most 上級の civil servant, 示す Sedwill, to open an 調査 into the 旅行.
"The British people do not 推定する／予想する there to be one 支配する for them and another 支配する for the 首相's most 上級の 助言者," 労働 said.
Just a few days before Cummings' 旅行, Johnson 課すd a lockdown in the 部隊d Kingdom and asked people to stay at home. He said on March 23 that people "should not be 会合 family members who do not live in your home".
すぐに after Johnson 発表するd that he had 実験（する）d 肯定的な for COVID-19, Cummings sprinted out of 負かす／撃墜するing Street on March 27 and developed symptoms on the 週末 of March 28-29.
政府 指導基準s say that those who have COVID-19 or 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う they have it should self-孤立する for at least seven days along with their 世帯 and not leave their house for any 推論する／理由.
The Scottish 国家の Party and the 自由主義の 民主党員s called for Cummings to be 解雇（する）d.
Other 目だつ 人物／姿／数字s have 辞職するd after breaking lockdown 支配するs.
Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson やめる as a member of the 政府's 科学の （a）忠告の／（n）警報 group after he was visited at home by his girlfriend. Scotland's 長，指導者 医療の officer, Catherine Calderwood, stepped 負かす／撃墜する after she was caught making two trips to her second home. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Guy Faulconbridge; 付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Kanishka Singh; Editing by Angus MacSwan, John Stonestreet, James Drummond and Peter Graff)
