LET me be clear, I am not here to discuss whether Dominic Cummings drove too far to test his eyesight or was wrong to allow his four-year-old son to have a toilet stop.

Those matters have been pored over in the most invasive and over the top manner by a baying mob that epitomises everything wrong with our depressing cancel culture.

In a free country it’s up to every individual to interpret the draconian lockdown regulations responsibly and in a way that doesn’t threaten public health or break the law.

I despise that we’ve become a nation of politically motivated snitches, but I do accept that Cummings helped make the rules so is answerable for his actions.

However, to say that the hysteria over the past three days is about hypocrisy rather than Brexit ideology is completely naive.

Make no mistake, the establishment is out to get Dominic Cummings.

It has been out to get him since the moment he succeeded in doing what they all believed was impossible: Taking the UK out of the EU.

The tweet from the official UK Civil Service account that read, “Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?” is just one representation of what this man is up against.

And just like when they unsuccessfully attempted to overturn the biggest democratic vote in our history, the opposition believe this is a political opportunity.

Despite insisting they would not attempt to politicise a once in a lifetime pandemic, last night it emerged Labour, SNP, Lib Dems, DUP, Plaid Cymru, SDLP, Greens and the Alliance Party are planning to band together to “discuss the next steps in holding Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings to account”.

That approach didn’t work over Brexit. It won’t work now.

The idea that the entire country is talking about this assistant to the Prime Minister is one perpetuated by the media and I do not believe it for one second.

Most folk are rightly concerned about their heath, concerned about when they’ll next see their relatives, concerned about their jobs, concerned about their savings and concerned about their futures.

The Guardian and Daily Mirror did some brilliant reporting on day one of this scandal, but they have let themselves down since.

Their false reporting that Cummings had returned to Durham after going back to work at No10 Downing Street was based on one witness who wouldn’t even go on the record. It was wrong.

Fundamentally, it undermines their claim that this isn’t a politically motivated witch hunt.

Labour’s Emily Thornberry congratulated her constituents throwing a volley of abuse at Cummings as he walked to his house and no doubt supported the cretins who chucked eggs at his car too.

That’s not the country I believe we should be. We need to stand for tolerance and respectful debate, no matter your political views.

The days of pitchfork-style protests driving good people out of their positions for so called outrages driven by social media and the liberal media has to end.

That’s why Boris Johnson needs to ignore the ongoing noise and focus on the most important moment of his career: Pulling us out of this devastating health emergency and unprecedented economic crisis.

He will do that more successfully with Dominic Cummings by his side.

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