Piers Morgan took a swipe at the UK Government and Dominic Cummings on his return to Good Morning Britain.
The ITV presenter wasted no time in hitting out at the government upon his return to the show.
Touching on Dominic Cummings trips to Durham in May amid lockdown, Morghan stated that he believed the aide to the Prime Minister should step down and questioned Boris Johnson for defending his actions.
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"What Dominic Cummings has almost singlehandedly done is he's destroyed the lockdown."
"By doing what he did, refusing to even apologise, refusing to admit that anything that he did was wrong,
"Even though none of us could do what he did, at the time that he did it.
"By doing that, he has destroyed the lockdown. He has destroyed the trust in the government."
'Dominic Cummings has destroyed the lockdown but by refusing to apologise he's destroyed trust in government.' - @piersmorgan
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) June 1, 2020
'If the person who helped set the rules can break the rules, why should anyone else stick to the rules?' - @susannareid100 pic.twitter.com/3S8rE4Yjwn
He added: "Boris Johnson's standing by him, inexplicably. God knows what Cummings has on Boris Johnson, it must be bad."
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Co-host Susanna Reid questioned why the public would stick to lockdown rules following Cummings' actions saying: "If the person who helped set the rules, can break the rules, why should anyone else stick to the rules?"
"Why should we?"
"Why should I not go and stay in my little cottage, in my second home.
"Why shouldn't I pull a 'Cummings', is what I'm thinking. And I haven't, because actually I don't want to do anything that could put my parents at risk."
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