BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg has been listed as "Chief Press Officer of Her Majesty’s Government" on Wikipedia after appearing to quickly jump to the defence of Dominic Cummings for breaking lockdown rules.
The position is currently held by Rob Oxley and the page was last edited on May 20.
Dominic Cummings faces a chorus of calls to resign after a joint Guardian and Mirror investigation revealed he had travelled 250 miles from London to Durham to visit his parents while sick with coronavirus.
He and his wife have argued they made the journey so his parents could take care of their son while they both suffered with Covid-19. Those who have symptoms of the virus are legally supposed to self-isolate for seven days.
On Friday night Kuenssberg publicly responded to the Mirror’s political editor Pippa Crerar, who had posted the story to her own Twitter profile, appearing to correct facts in the article in accordance with what she had heard from her own unnamed “source”.
Source says his trip was within guidelines as Cummings went to stay with his parents so they could help with childcare while he and his wife were ill - they insist no breach of lockdown
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) May 22, 2020
She told Crerar within an hour of the story being posted: “Source says his trip was within guidelines as Cummings went to stay with his parents so they could help with childcare while he and his wife were ill - they insist no breach of lockdown.”
She also tweeted the Mirror journalist to say: “PM's chief adviser did travel from London to County Durham during lockdown when he and his wife had coronavirus to stay in a separate building at his family's farm, a source close to him confirms - source says it is not true that he was spoken to by police ...”
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