I do not care what his excuse is, a cabinet minister (cabinet minister for Heaven’s sake, the whole bunch of them together aren’t a match for  a troop of Brownies) who fails to follow “advice” issued to the public has got to go – all the more so when he himself issued it.   And if he does not resign, effective immediate, he should be sacked.

Robert Jenrick has demonstrated the integrity that he brings to public life.

For the last 5 years we have watched government ministers lying, cheating, hiding, committing acts of cowardice.  The crisis over the virus is a chance for them to demonstrate at last an  ounce of integrity (I won’t say “honour,” that’s long gone).  And now, with his jaunt from London to Hereford, and on to Ludlow, for nothing that a neighbour could not – would not – have done  Jenrick has blown even that final straw away and into the wind. I would to God he’d follow it and get out of public life.