LAME EXCUSES

Johnson admits misleading MPs about breaking Covid rules at No10 parties.. then blames everyone but himself

-  BEN GLAZE Deputy Political Editor

BORIS Johnson finally came clean about misleading MPs yesterday, then tried to shift the blame on to everyone else.

It took the shameless Tory six months to admit he dished out false statements to Parliament about lockdown parties in No10.

But the former PM claims he did not do it intentionally and trotted out a list of feeble excuses for the rule-breaking, while throwing aides under a bus.

Mr Johnson faces a four-hour Commons grilling today on why after the he misled Parliament Mirror exposed Partygate.

In a 52-page dossier of his defence, released yesterday by the Privileges Committee, he insisted he had acted in "good faith" when he told MPs in 2021 that he did not know the events he was at were parties.

But grieving relatives of virus victims branded the claim "sickening", after the rest of the country stood by the rules he made, that he and his staff broke.