“ONE rule for him and his elite chums” – That’s what Slough’s MP said as he lashed out against Prime Minister Boris Johnson and “spineless” ministers for defending Dominic Cummings’ breach of lockdown rules.

In a passionate speech in the House of Commons, Labour parliamentarian Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi recalled he couldn’t carry his grandmother’s coffin and attend his “fun-loving” uncle’s funeral in person because of Covid restrictions.

He slammed Mr Johnson and “spineless” ministers defence of Dominic Cummings breach of lockdown rules as an “absolute disgrace” and demanded the Prime Minister to apologise for standing by his former chief advisor.

Mr Cummings went from London to County Durham during national lockdown – and drove to Barnard Castle, infamously saying to test his eyesight.

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Boris Johnson did apologise, but not for his actions as he was “deeply, deeply sorry” for the suffering the people have endured during the pandemic.

Slough’s MP said: “After we had experienced such painful personal sacrifices, like many others, imagine our collective disgust when, to curry favour with a Prime Minister’s chief adviser, we saw sycophantic, spineless, hypocritical Government Ministers lining up to defend the indefensible, saying, ‘It’s time to move on’.

“Some even had the gall to tell us that they, too, go for a long drive when they need to get their eyesight tested. What an absolute disgrace.

“They should all be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. When is the Prime Minister finally going to apologise to the nation for not mustering the courage and integrity to do the honourable thing and sack his chief adviser, who so shamelessly flouted his own Government guidance?

“He could have regained that lost public trust and confidence, and demonstrated that it was not one rule for him and his elite chums and another for the rest of us plebs.”

Mr Johnson replied: “Perhaps the best thing I can say is how deeply I think I, the government, everybody sympathises with those who have gone through the suffering described by the gentleman opposite.

“No one who hasn’t been through something like that can imagine what it must feel like to be deprived of the ability to mourn properly, to hold the hand of a loved one in their last moments in the way that the honourable gentleman describes, and I know how much sympathy there will be with him.

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“I take his criticisms most sincerely of the government and everything that we have done, but all that I can say is we have tried throughout this pandemic to minimise human suffering and to minimise loss of life.

“When he asks for me to apologise, I do. I apologise for the suffering that the people of this country have endured.

“Nothing I can say or do can take back the lost lives, the lost time spent with loved ones that he described and I’m deeply, deeply sorry for that.’