Scottish Secretary defends Boris Johnson over partygate: 'He was mugged by a cake' 🔴 Alister Jack suggested that the Prime Minister and Rishi Sunak were unfortunate to be fined by police over the scandal
“He was mugged, as was Rishi, by a birthday cake they didn’t see coming as they sat in the Cabinet Office,” he told Scottish reporters at a briefing in London.
“They didn’t attend a party, a party arrived and caught them out. I mean, let’s be honest about that. And the Metropolitan Police saw the word ‘party’ after ‘birthday’ and gave the pair of them a fixed penalty notice. And that is a matter of fact.”, arguing he had to be careful not to “jump to judgement” because there were “so many rumours all the time” about politicians’ behaviour.
“In Westminster, there are many allegations surrounding many people, and – I’m not going to say 90 per cent – but the vast majority of them turn out not to be true,” he added.despite the rush of Cabinet and ministerial resignations“I’m optimistic that the Prime Minister will endure. The road is bumpy, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise, but he has faced challenges before and he has endured. We need a reset of the Government, and that will come,” he said.
Calling for the rest of the Conservative Party to unite behind him, he added: “Divided parties don’t win elections. What I would say to people, to my colleagues, [is] you have a Prime Minister who got an 80 seat majority.Mr Jack also said he had no intention of quitting as Scottish Secretary if Mr Johnson did resign, saying he would be happy to serve in the same job under a new Prime Minister.
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