LONDON • British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday rejected opposition calls to resign for attending lockdown parties but accepted a rule that ministers should lose their jobs if they had knowingly misled Parliament applied to him.
Mr Johnson, who in 2019 won the biggest Conservative majority in more than 30 years, is bracing himself for the publication of an official investigation into claims that there were multiple boozy Downing Street parties during lockdowns. He told Parliament no rules were broken.
Mr Johnson told the House of Commons he could not comment on the matter while it is still under investigation, and reiterated a promise to publish senior civil servant Sue Gray’s report in full once he has received it.
The exact timing of that has been thrown into disarray by the surprise announcement on Tuesday of a separate probe by the Metropolitan Police.
The Prime Minister’s spokesman said yesterday that Downing Street had not yet been given the report but vowed to publish it “as swiftly as possible”.
Asked by opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer if the ministerial code, which states that ministers who had knowingly misled Parliament should offer to resign, applied to him, Mr Johnson said: “Of course.”
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