Claims UK PM Johnson lied about lockdown party is rubbish, says deputy – Times of India

London: Claims of a former senior advisor boris johnson that the British Prime Minister lied to parliament a. about not knowing about Lockdown Party in Downing Street Nonsense, his deputy said on Tuesday.
On being asked whether the term of the Prime Minister has expired, can it be proved that he lied to the Parliament, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Rabo Said: “Look, the suggestion that he lied is nonsense.
“He made it very clear House of Commons, questioned it, that he thought it was a work show,” he told Times Radio.
Johnson apologized to Parliament last week for attending a “bring your own wine” gathering in the garden of Downing Street on May 20, 2020, but said he thought it was an action programme.
Dominic Cummings, an architect of Britain’s departure from the European Union and a former senior adviser to Johnson, who left the government in November 2020 under scathing terms, said Johnson agreed the drinking party should go ahead.
“Not only me but other eyewitnesses who discussed this at the time will swear that this is what happened,” he said on his blog.
Asked whether Johnson should resign if he had lied, Raab said he would not speculate about hypotheticals.
Johnson’s apology came after ITV News published an email invitation Johnson’s Principal Private Secretary Martin Reynolds asks attendees at the May 20, 2020 event to “bring their own wine.”
Cummings said that after at least two people asked Reynolds to turn down the invitation, Reynolds checked in with Johnson to see if it should go ahead.
“The prime minister agreed that it should be,” Cummings said in his blog.
Investigating nearly a dozen allegations of senior civil servant Sue Grey breaking rules Johnson, his team and officials at his 10 Downing Street official residence. Senior ministers have said that people need to wait till their probe is completed.
However, the scandals have seen Johnson’s personal rating plummet and his endorsement. conservative Party Opinion polls drowned. A growing number of Conservative MPs have said he should now resign.
“I will demand action against anyone found to be breaking the rules,” Junior Health Minister Maria Caulfield said on her website.
“It’s clear that there was a culture inside Number 10 where even if the rules weren’t technically broken, there was a sense of the rules, and that’s completely unacceptable.”

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