UK leader Johnson stands by aide over 250-mile lockdown trip
(WorldNews Politics)

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday he wouldn`t fire his chief aide for allegedly violating the national coronavirus lockdown rules that he helped to create. Johnson defied a growing clamor for the dismissal of adviser Dominic Cummings, who drove 250 miles (400 kilometers) from London to his parents` home in Durham, in northeast England, with his wife and son as he was coming down with COVID-19 at the end of March. Britain`s lockdown, which began March 23, stipulated that people should remain at their primary residence, leaving only for essential local errands and exercise. Anyone with coronavirus symptoms was told to completely isolate themselves. Cummings says he...