THE SNP's Westminster leader has lodged a parliamentary motion calling for Dominic Cummings to resign.
Ian Blackford MP has demanded the Prime Minister's top advisor to be removed from his position and said Boris Johnson's judgement is "on the line".
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He also intends to hold a cross-party meeting tomorrow to discuss the next steps MPs can take should Mr Cummings cling on to his post for the next 24 hours.
The MP's motion, lodged today, states that the PM should "seek the immediate resignation of his chief adviser, Mr Dominic Cummings" and cites the "damage Mr Cummings' breach of clear lockdown rules during the Covid-19 pandemic has done to public health advice and public confidence in it".
It also calls for an inquiry into the "sanctioning of this breach of lockdown rules and any measures taken within government to restrict full transparency on this matter" and "concludes that there cannot be one rule for the Prime Minister’s senior advisers and separate rules for everyone else."
Mr Blackford said: "Boris Johnson must sack Dominic Cummings. If he doesn't this will go on for many weeks and cause lasting damage to public confidence in the Tory government and its Covid-19 response.
"The Prime Minister's judgement is on now the line - he must stop treating the public as fools. There cannot be one rule for Tory advisers and another for everyone else. Dominic Cummings broke the rules and he is now threatening public health. He must go without further delay.
"Public anger is palpable. MPs are receiving hundreds of emails from their constituents and hundreds of thousands have signed a petition calling for Mr Cummings to go. The police have launched an investigation. This is not going away - however much Boris Johnson arrogantly dismisses the widespread public concern.
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"The SNP has written to Sir Mark Sedwill calling for an inquiry and tabled a Parliamentary motion demanding Mr Cummings resignation. We have also submitted a series of Parliamentary questions to put on record exactly what role Boris Johnson played in the Downing Street cover-up, which kept the public in the dark for eight weeks.
"Tomorrow we will hold a cross-party meeting for MPs to discuss the joint actions we can take to hold Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings to account.
"The longer the Prime Minister allows this farce to continue the more the Tory government will lose credibility and respect. He must sack Mr Cummings without further delay."
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