Boris Johnson was given ‘repeated assurances’ by aides that no rules were broken Parties were within the rules and ‘firmly within the work exception’ 🔎 eleanormia explores key points from the former PM's defence and how the report may consider them
claiming he believed their “purpose from the beginning has been to find me guilty”.
“If I was going 100 miles an hour and I saw the speedometer saying 100 miles an hour, it would be a bit odd, wouldn’t it, if I said, somebody assured me that it wasn’t,” she said. In written evidence to the committee, he said he believed that a Christmas party held in 2020 was “firmly within the work exception”, and that social distancing was not always possible within Downing Street.
“He could have taken the issue up with Martin Reynolds, his principal private secretary, to shut them down. He could see what was happening and allowed the culture to continue. In his written evidence to the committee, Mr Johnson said: “I accept that the House of Commons was misled by my statements that the rules and guidance had been followed completely at No.10.
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