LONDON—British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on May 24 he wouldn’t fire his chief aide for allegedly violating national lockdown rules that he helped to create by driving the length of England to his parents’ house while he was infected with the coronavirus.
Defying a growing clamor from public and politicians, Johnson said Dominic Cummings had acted “responsibly, legally, and with integrity” when he drove 250 miles (400 kilometers) to Durham, in northeast England, from London with his wife and son at the end of March.
