The Prime Minister's top aide Dominic Cummings was berated by angry hecklers outside his house last night.
As he walked to his London home shouts of "hypocrite", "shame" and calls for him to resign could be heard from the group, which did not appear to be associated with the assembled media.
"My mum’s terrified, my dad’s had three shoulder operations… she won’t even entertain me in her garden with a tent" one woman could be heard shouting.
The woman, who was filming Mr Cummings on her phone as she spoke, could then be heard telling him: "I’m a single parent," reports the Mirror.
"I’ve had no childcare since the beginning of this whole mess, not that I can afford to pay any child care" she added.
Another shouted: "Would you recommend Barnard Castle for a day out?"
Mr Cummings did not appear to respond to any of the heckling.
The former head of the Vote Leave campaign is under fire for alleged breaches of lockdown rules by travelling over 250 miles from London to his parents estate in County Durham whilst his wife was ill with the virus.
There were also subsequent reported sightings of him in the north east, including at Barnard Castle, a beauty spot around 30 miles from Durham.
He insists he travelled in case he needed help looking after his four year-old child should he himself fall ill with the virus, which he subsequently did, and had acted "responsibly and legally."
At a dramatic Downing Street press conference on Sunday evening, Boris Johnson resoundingly backed his chief of staff despite increasing disquiet and calls for him to go from many of his own MP's.
Mr Johnson said: "I have had extensive face-to-face conversations with Dominic Cummings and I have concluded that in travelling to find the right kind of childcare, at the moment when both he and his wife were about to be incapacitated by coronavirus – and when he had no alternative – I think he followed the instincts of every father and every parent.
"And I do not mark him down for that.
"Though there have been many other allegations about what happened when he was in self-isolation and thereafter, some of them palpably false, I believe that in every respect he has acted responsibly and legally and with integrity and with the overwhelming aim of stopping the spread of the virus and saving lives."
