However, Boris Johnson evidently felt that he could not repeat the risible garbage he had told Sky News on Tuesday at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday.
On Tuesday, he had spent almost 20 full minutes saying, with as much sincerity as he could conjure, that nobody had told him the party happening in his garden – which he attended for 25 minutes – was against the Covid regulations.
This has already been laughed at, many times over, and there is absolutely no reason not to do so again. It really is a point of fact that the actual prime minister is continuing to claim that he attended a party in his own garden which only he was unaware was a party. Several people have now said he was told it was a party. Johnson says this didn’t happen, which means those of us trying to piece together what might have happened have to decide who to believe, in a choice between absolutely anyone at all and the guy who has been telling clear and demonstrable lies for several months. Sorry, decades.
Yesterday, at the despatch box in the House of Commons, this defence was not forthcoming. This week, just as last week, all he could say, over and over again, was that we must all wait for Sue Gray’s investigation, which he commissioned, and which he knows does not have the scope to directly accuse him of wrongdoing. And after that, he will claim it is time to move on.
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