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An omen of oblivion for Boris from a Tory MP

19 January 2022

7:03 PM

19 January 2022

7:03 PM

The Prime Minister revealed on Tuesday, during an interview with broadcasters, his testimony to Sue Gray, who he gave the mandate to investigate potentially unlawful parties held during lockdown at 10 Downing Street.

‘This is what I said to the inquiry,’ he confirmed. So what is his ‘this’?

His main claim – which his own MPs tell me is plain weird – is that he didn’t do anything wrong in going to what in normal English would be called ‘a party’ on the evening of 20 May 2020 because ‘nobody told me and nobody said this was something that was against the rules’.

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