Mr Johnson has spoke to a reporter in Washington about his diary entries being handed to police.
The short interview is Mr Johnson's first public comment on the latest development and he said: "This whole thing is a load of nonsense from beginning to end."
Mr Johnson, who is currently being investigated by the privileges committee over whether he lied to parliament over his repeated Partygate denials. questioned why the Cabinet Office had handed over entries from his diary to police without first querying them with him. "I think it's ridiculous that elements in my diary should be cherry-picked and handed over to the police [and] to the Privileges Committee without even anybody having the basic common sense to ask me what these entries referred to."about Mr Johnson's diaries, said the entries revealed visits by Mr Johnson's friends to Chequers - the PM's country estate - and events in Downing Street during the pandemic.
Bur Mr Johnson told Sky: "There are tens of thousands of entries in the prime ministerial diary - none of them constitute a breach of the rules during Covid.", previously said he believes he is the victim of a "politically motivated stitch-up" following his police referral on Wednesday.
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