‘Are you not confusing business with domestic here?’ NickFerrariLBC puts this question to caller John, who ‘hopes’ Boris Johnson will be ‘cleared’ after the Partygate inquiry.
The committee scrutinising Johnson today is chaired by the Labour MP Harriet Harman, although it has a Conservative majority. In a statement released earlier this month, they said that breaches of lockdown guidance were "obvious" to him at the time.
However, this claim has been refuted by Johnson who on Tuesday released a 52-page document defending his actions. Nick asked the caller: “When you consider that the met deme that he has committed a crime what does that inform you of that situation?” To which he gave the swift response: “It informs you that the Met are a very confused political organisation” who he argued “would have broken the proximity rules left right and centre.”Downing Street staff parties during lockdown came to light at the end of 2021, later becoming known as the Partygate scandal we know today.
On several occasions after news of the parties broke, Johnson told the House of Commons that Covid rules had been followed in Downing Street. A report by senior official Sue Gray later revealed that rule-breaking had taken place at multiple events, and police issued fines to 83 people, including Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak.
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