HE HAS LIED ENOUGH

Anger after councillor unable to be with dying brother as Tories partied

- ANNIE BROWN

A FURIOUS council chief has written to Boris Johnson demanding he resign after Tory Government staff partied as her brother was dying from Covid.

Marie Garrity couldn't visit her brother lan as he was fighting for his life in hospital last Christmas.

The senior Glasgow City councillor had to call her brother and say her last goodbyes over the phone hours before his death on December 29.

Now Marie, who heads Scotland's National Association of Councillors, has been left angry and sickened at revelations of Downing Street staff flouting rules with Christmas quizzes and cheese and wine parties.

She said: “It is one rule for them and one rule for the rest of us.

"When I heard about the parties, I felt so angry that while they were celebrating my brother was fighting for his life.

“Johnson just keeps on denying it all and he needs to go. He has lied enough She has now written to the PM, telling him to quit for letting the country down.

In her letter to Johnson, she said: "I was not allowed to visit my brother and neither was his eight-year-old son.