Piers Morgan has banned all cabinet ministers who have publicly backed Dominic Cummings from Good Morning Britain.
The outspoken telly host, 55, has taken aim at Prime Minister Boris Johnson 's chief advisor after the Mirror revealed he'd flouted the government's own lockdown rules by travelling from London to Durham.
Piers savaged Cummings in a series of outraged tweets, branding his actions "disgraceful", and he's now turned on those supporting him.
The GMB star has issued a threat that any cabinet minister who publicly supports the embattled aide will no longer be welcomed on his show.
He tweeted: "In light of today’s developments, I am regretfully forced to ban all cabinet ministers from appearing on @GMB until further notice.
"Only exceptions will be those who didn’t publicly support Cummings breaching a lockdown that the Govt forced on the rest of us ‘to save lives’."
Among those who will be included in the ban is Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who posted a defiant tweet backing Cummings' explanation of why he left London and moved his family to Durham.
Hancock, who battled Covid-19 himself, wrote: "I know how ill coronavirus makes you. It was entirely right for Dom Cummings to find childcare for his toddler, when both he and his wife were getting ill.
However, it looks like Piers' ban is more of an empty threat as he's previously accused the government of refusing to allow ministers to appear on the show anyway.
He claims top Tories have been ordered to avoid GMB after a series of brutal interviews in which he held ministers to account over the handling of the coronavirus crisis.
Cummings has come under increasing pressure to step down after it emerged he travelled 260 miles from his London home to stay in a house owned by his parents in Durham.
This publication also revealed today that Cummings ignored the guidance for a second time when he was spotted in Houghall Woods in County Durham a fortnight after the first sighting.
Yesterday Piers threatened to break lockdown rules himself unless Johnson took action and sacked Cummings.
He tweeted: "If Boris doesn’t fire Cummings today, then I will deem the Lockdown over & drive down to see my parents (from a 2m distance) for the first time in 12 weeks.
"I’m not having one rule for these clowns & another for the rest of us."
