The Barnard Castle trip was clearly just a day out with his family before he returned to London . Considering unless my maths is well out he was already past the 7 days isolation reqd (when you have had symptoms) so why they came out with such total bollocks to justify the trip is laughable .They didn’t expect it to come out. The story only saw the light of day because a neighbour saw him in Durham when he was supposed to be in London, and grassed him up to the press.
Even then the Guardian didn’t think they had much of a story, until they started digging and found other neighbours to corroborate the first one, which makes a bit of a nonsense of his claims that he self isolated when he got there.
The trip to the ****ing castle completely undermines everything else he said imo. He drove there to test his eyesight? Wtf?
