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Boris Johnson has said he was “very, very surprised” to receive a fine for attending a lockdown-breaking gathering in Downing Street.
The prime minister, talking to Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts, was questioned on issues from partygate and Northern Ireland to nappies and his favourite book to read to his children.
Asked by a teacher why he did not lose his job for breaking lockdown rules, Mr Johnson said: “I apologise very much for what happened.
“I think if people look at the event in question it felt to me like a work event, I was there for a very short period of time in the cabinet office, at my desk, and I was very, very surprised and taken aback to get a fixed penalty notice.”
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After the release last Wednesday of the Sue Gray report, which revealed raucous lockdown-breaking parties in 2020 and 2021, Mr Johnson told parliament he took “full responsibility for everything that took place under my watch” and said the government were “humbled” and had “learned a lesson”.
Speaking to Mumsnet, the online forum for parents, Mr Johnson described the birthday party for which he was fined as a “miserable event” and said he did not eat any of the cake on offer.
“If you’re talking satirically about that miserable event, whose picture appeared on the front pages, then no cake was consumed by me I can tell you, I can tell you that much,” he said.
The first question to the prime minister was: “Why should we believe anything you say when it has been proven you’re a habitual liar?”
He seemed taken aback and said he agreed with neither the “conclusion nor the premise”.
“People throw all sorts of accusations at me about all sorts of things, ever since I drove around with a sign on a bus,” he said, referring to the Vote Leave campaign bus that claimed Britain sent the EU £350m a week before the Brexit referendum.
“And they have all sorts of reasons for saying that. But I think you’ve just got to look…
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Source : skynews
