UK junior minister quits over PM adviser's lockdown drive

Douglas Ross, a junior minister in the Scotland Office, resigned from the British government on Tuesday over the handling of accusations that the prime minister's senior adviser had broken the coronavirus lockdown by travelling for help with childcare.Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson's closest adviser, refused to resign on Monday, saying he had done nothing wrong by driving 250 miles to northern England when Britain was under a strict lockdown to prevent the spread of the infection.Johnson's defe