The UK’s largest press regulator has pointed anyone concerned about journalists not following social distancing guidelines to the police, but backed their right to go out and do their jobs.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation has been contacted by people concerned over images and videos of a media scrum outside Dominic Cummings’ north London home since news broke on Friday night that he drove to Durham while lockdown restrictions were in place.

One video from the weekend that has been widely circulated online shows around 15 media workers in close proximity to each other, taking photos and shouting questions – with only some wearing face masks.