For the prime minister’s aide, this County Durham town was somewhere to ‘test his eyesight’ during the first lockdown. It is now a place of pilgrimage
Rosalind Evans was one of at least three residents of Barnard Castle who claimed to have seen Dominic Cummings visit the town at the height of the first lockdown, and she is still fuming about it. “There’s no way the passage of time should make any difference to the enormity of what he did,” she says.
Cummings admitted a family trip to the town on 12 April, his wife’s birthday, after the Guardian and the Daily Mirror had revealed he made the journey, as well as fleeing his London home for Durham with suspected Covid.