PM Rejects Calls For Him To Resign

Boris Johnson rejected calls to resign as he waited for an official report into the partygate row.

The Prime Minister insisted he was getting on with the job , although he acknowledged there were people who want me out of the way for a variety of reasons.

Mr Johnson appeared at Prime Minister's Questions with his future in the balance as Westminster awaits the release of senior official Sue Gray's report into alleged lockdown-busting parties in No 10 and Whitehall.

The report was expected to be handed to No 10 yesterday, although it had not been submitted by the time Mr Johnson stood up to face MPs or by the end of Parliamentary business. But an indication of how damaging the report could be for the Government came when Scotland Yard chief Dame Cressida Dick announced a police inquiry was being carried out, based in part on evidence obtained by the Gray investigation.