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Phillip Schofield has lambasted Dominic Cummings over his honesty regarding his \u2018trip to Barnard Castle\u2019 after the former top aide\u2019s scathing attack on the government.
\nOn Wednesday May 26, Cummings appeared before a joint parliamentary committee, where he made a series of shocking claims about the government\u2019s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, including that the government\u2019s lockdown plan had a section on \u2018who do we not save?\u2019
\nCummings also apologised over how his infamous trip to Barnard Castle unfolded, saying: \u2018I am extremely sorry over the whole thing\u2019, explaining that he was trying to deal with security issues at the time and didn\u2019t tell the \u2018full story\u2019.
\nDuring the first lockdown, Cummings was heavily criticised after he claimed that he drove to the town of Barnard Castle to test his eyesight before a longer journey, having previously been unwell with coronavirus.
\nOn Thursday\u2019s edition of This Morning, Schofield called out the fact that Cummings didn\u2019t tell the whole truth at the time, after guest Beverley Turner said that Cummings \u2018himself said they needed to be more transparent\u2019, adding: \u2018A lot of this confusion and the mistrust perhaps wouldn\u2019t have happened if they\u2019d been more honest from the start.\u2019
\n\u2018Shame he wasn\u2019t a bit more honest about his trip to Barnard Castle, but we\u2019ll come to that in just a moment,\u2019 Schofield responded.<\/p>\n
Schofield makes a dig at Cummings after the headline-making testimony (Picture: ITV)Before making his jibe about Cummings, Schofield explained how before Cummings\u2019 testimony took place, there were people saying that \u2018this is a story that\u2019s going to stay in Westminster\u2019, saying that they weren\u2019t \u2018sure that anybody is going to be bothered around the country\u2019.
\n\u2018And then you get this hatchet job that went on,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Cummings made a series of shocking revelations (Picture: EPA)Later during the segment, Matthew Wright \u2013 who was appearing as a guest over video chat \u2013 said that \u2018you do think that somebody needs to be held accountable\u2019 over the handling of the pandemic, although an enquiry isn\u2019t going to take place until next year.
\nSchofield said that in his view, \u2018regardless of whichever government\u2019 happened to be in power, it was \u2018going to be bumbling\u2019.
\n\u2018Regardless of whichever government it happened to be at that time when this thing strikes, if it\u2019s never happened before, including Cummings and the prime minister and the health secretary, isn\u2019t there going to be bumbling until you figure out what the hell\u2019s going on?\u2019 he said.
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Following Cummings\u2019 testimony, several people on social media remarked that they can see Benedict Cumberbatch playing the political strategist for a second time to depict the series of events.
\nCumberbatch first played Cummings in the 2019 Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War.
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