Dominic Cummings, a former adviser to the British Prime Minister, claims that the Prime Minister lied to Parliament about the parties that were held in Downing Street during the pandemic and that he allowed at least one of them despite warnings that it was against the rules. .
British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, denied this Tuesday having lied to Parliament about the controversy downing street garden party in May 2020 and has assured that no one warned him that he was going against the restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In his first public statement in nearly a week, Johnson refuted the revelations made by Dominic Cummings, his former right-hand man in the Government, who assures that both he and at least one other official alerted the prime minister that this event did not meet the standards and that I should cancel it.
“Categorically, nobody told me that this was against the rules or that it violated the rules of the coronavirus,” Johnson told the Sky News network, after last week he declared in the House of Commons that he attended the meeting in the garden of his official residence because he thought it was a “work event”.
In addition to Cummings’ statements, which assures that the warnings to Johnson were made in writing and were recorded, Sky News has indicated that a second source from Downing Street has confirmed that the head of government was alerted to the nature of the event.
The invitations were sent by Johnson’s own private secretary, Martin Reynolds, in a email addressed to more than one hundred employees from the official residence of the prime minister.
In that text, revealed by the ITV network, workers were urged to “take advantage of the good weather” at the end of May to share some “drinks with social distance” in the garden. “Bring your own drink!”, the email concluded.
The publication of details about this and other alleged celebrations in Downing Street and other government departments during the pandemic have put Johnson on the ropes, who is facing calls for resignation from both the opposition and his own party.
The prospect that he lied to Parliament about the warnings given to him before the May festivities may further weaken his precarious political position.
“I reiterate my apologies to everyone for the errors in judgment I made”Johnson said today.
As he expressed last week before deputies, the prime minister assured that he understands how “outrageous these revelations must be for people” after the “enormous sacrifices” they have made during the pandemic.
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