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What happens to Dominic Cummings now he has been found in contempt of parliament?

Analysis: The Vote Leave chief failed to attend a select committee hearing but, as John Rentoul explains, he will not be thrown into the Tower of London

Saturday 30 March 2019 20:13 GMT
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Dominic Cummings speaking to the Treasury Select Committee
Dominic Cummings speaking to the Treasury Select Committee (Youtube)

Dominic Cummings, the director of the official Vote Leave campaign who was played by Benedict Cumberbatch in a TV docudrama about the 2016 referendum, Brexit: The Uncivil War, has been told off most severely.

The House of Commons Committee of Privileges found him in contempt of parliament, and recommended that the house “admonish” him, for refusing to turn up for a select committee hearing.

This may not sound like much of a punishment. You might also ask: as one of the people who got us into this Brexit mess, why can he not be brought to book? Surely MPs could lock him in the clock tower at the very least?

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