British PM faces fresh accusations of lying over 'partygate'
The Straits Times|May 25, 2022
New photos show Johnson toasting aide at Downing Street party during 2020 lockdown
British PM faces fresh accusations of lying over 'partygate'

LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday faced renewed accusations of lying, after photos emerged of him raising a glass at a Downing Street party during lockdown in 2020.

The revelations came as a senior civil servant was expected to publish her long-awaited full report into the "partygate" scandal, despite claims that Mr Johnson was trying to have it dropped.

A slew of revelations earlier this year about lockdown-breaking parties caused widespread political and public anger, and put Mr Johnson's position in jeopardy. But the heat was taken out of a potential mutiny from his own MPs by the war in Ukraine, and his support for President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The photos published late on Monday by ITV News were taken during a leaving party for Mr Johnson's communications chief Lee Cain on Nov 13, 2020, just days after the government ordered a second lockdown and banned mixing by households.

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