UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejected calls to resign after an inquiry Wednesday found that he presided over a culture of lockdown-breaking parties that featured drunken fighting among staff.
Johnson is among dozens of people in Downing Street who have received police fines for breaching Covid regulations since 2020 - making Number 10 the most penalised address in the entire country.
He expressed hope that with the investigation now over,"we will be able to move on" in addressing priorities including the war in Ukraine and a spiralling cost-of-living crisis in Britain.Gray published photographs of Johnson toasting staff with wine and described revelling that sometimes stretched into the early hours to music from a karaoke machine.
"The senior leadership at the centre, both political and official, must bear responsibility for this culture," Gray added, noting the painful sacrifices made by the UK public to respect the rules set by Johnson's government.The report came out as a different photograph published by the Daily Mirror newspaper showed a Downing Street table laden with wine bottles and doughnuts.The prime minister defied calls to resign after he received the police fine in April.
"It's time to pack his bags," added Starmer, who has vowed to quit himself if fined by police in northeast England for an alleged breach of the Covid regulations during an election campaign meeting. Johnson was due later to hold a news conference, before attending a meeting of backbench Tories, some of whom have written to demand a no-confidence vote.
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