The ex-UK prime minister was questioned by MPs this week about parties in No 10 during lockdown. If they don’t accept his answers their verdict could finish him
Boris Johnson spent the afternoon of Wednesday 22 March being questioned closely by a committee of Conservative and opposition MPs about a number of gatherings in Downing Street that took place while the UK was in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. The events became known as the Partygate scandal.of the UK on 7 July last year after a series of controversies – the biggest of which was Partygate.
All of this was going on when millions of Britons were observing strict lockdown rules. They weren’t going out. After all, Johnson, as prime minister, had implored them not to. He had urged people to abide by rules his government had devised. After Johnson was fined, there were calls for him to quit but he refused to stand down. But his problems were far from over.
Although Johnson has now admitted the statements he made at the time were wrong, the committee is looking at whether he made them “recklessly” – that is, he should have known they were nonsense. He was living in the house where most of the parties took place – he was photographed at some of them, and was fined by the police too. Could he really not have known what was happening under his own roof?when he went before the committee.
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