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‘Not like Dominic Cummings!’ Boris Johnson’s dad and the 300-mile lockdown laptop trip

Stanley Johnson’s computer wasn’t working – so a University of Buckingham technician and his young son drove 150 miles during the lockdown to fix it.

By Peter Geoghegan, Seth Thévoz and Jenna Corderoy
‘Not like Dominic Cummings!’ Boris Johnson’s dad and the 300-mile lockdown laptop trip
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What would you do if you’d booked a live Microsoft Teams call during a national lockdown but your laptop wasn’t working? Use your mobile phone? Call the whole thing off?

Or would you have someone drive over 150 miles to fix your computer? If you’re Stanley Johnson, the choice is yours.

The prime minister’s father was booked to do an online discussion with students at the University of Buckingham earlier this week. So an IT specialist from the private university drove to his rural estate near Exford in west Somerset just to see if he could repair Johnson’s laptop.

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