BREAKING: Boris Johnson appears before Partygate inquiry to face grilling from fellow MPs.
The former PM will face around four hours of questioning about whether he misled the government and attended a number of parties during lockdown.
He was shown footage of his own words, as he spoke to MPs on multiple occasions during the pandemic and said time and time again there was ‘no party’ in Downing Street.He started with an apology for illegal gatherings in Number 10 and said: ‘That was wrong, I bitterly regret it, I understand public anger.
He will sit in front of the Privileges Committee being dragged over the coals regarding a number of Downing Street parties. He wrote that it was ‘Far from achieving a ‘cover-up’. He said: ‘I would have known that any deception on my part would lead to instant exposure. This would have been senseless and immediately self-defeating.’
In his evidence he accepts he misled the House of Commons when he said lockdown rules had been followed in No 10 but insisted the statements were made ‘in good faith’.and it showed what his lawyers had been fighting to get put into the document. ‘He did not welcome the interruption but told me that he had received reassurances that the comms event was within the rules.
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