Tory MP took train from London to North East after displaying coronavirus symptoms
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mirror.co.ukA Tory MP has defended himself after he took a train from London to the North East of England while displaying coronavirus symptoms.
Darlington MP Peter Gibson, part of the 2019 intake of so-called Red Wall Tories, said he travelled 250 miles by train from the capital prior to lockdown to isolate at home.
He made the comment on Facebook when posting about the Dominic Cummings scandal earlier this week. When asked why he had not stayed in London, he replied: "It was several weeks before lockdown and at the time I had no London address." Mr Gibson explained he was staying in a spare room of someone else's flat and did not have a permanent London base.
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