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{"Image ImageDescription": "Dominic Cummings Select Committee evidence: Grant Shapps interview; ENGLAND: London:\r\nINT\r\nGrant Shapps MP (Transport Secretary) interview via internet SOT (3 of 3)\r\nQ: On Dominic Cummings testimony and whether he should have been fired over Barnard Castle trip\r\n- PM said at the time - Cummings did what a lot of fathers would do - find somewhere to hunker down and sit out the 14 days - PM came out and said he spoke to him and accepted Cummings' defence - I don't think anything that has happened since including the hearing changes the PM accepting at the time that he had sone what he thought was right for his family \r\n\r\nQ: Naive in hindsight?\r\n- Huge amount of hindsight involved - particularly from the testimony of the particular witnesses - saying \"we should have done this then\" or \"I advised that at this point and no one agreed with me\" - fortunate that we can look back and see what's happened - accusation PM was refusing to lockdown - locked down second time, third time we're still coming out of - that's what actually happened, we saved a lot of lives and we were able to get that vaccine in people's arms - would have vaccine available if PM hadn't made those world-leading decisions to research it, manufacture and distribute it faster than any country our size - got ability to test people twice a week - 2 million capacity per day from nothing before virus - ability to sequence half of the world's sequencing of the genome - look at what's actually happened rather than what a former adviser has claimed - got many things right and I have no doubt some things wrong - independent inquiry will look at those things\r\n\r\nQ: Gave Cummings the benefit of the doubt - looks naive and stupid now\r\n- Specific incident Cummings going and hunkering down -wasn't travelling backwards and forwards - stayed there\r\n\r\nQ: Went to Barnard Castle didn't he? Undermined entire lockdown\r\n- Undoubtedly the case that people looked at that and drew their own conclusions - wasn't helpful - but PM...", "Image Copyright": "ITN (ITV News)"}