British PM Boris Johnson refuses to resign over lockdown parties as report looms

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Mr Johnson, who won the biggest Conservative majority in more than 30 years, is braced for the publication of an official investigation into claims that there were multiple boozy Downing Street parties during lockdowns.

Mr Johnson said his government was focused on driving economic growth and leading the Western response to the Ukraine crisis.

He has denied an allegation he was warned that a "bring your own booze" lockdown gathering on 20 May 2020, which he says he thought was a work event, was inappropriate. Some of his own colleagues have already demanded he resign but to trigger a leadership challenge, 54 of the 359 Conservative MPs in parliament must write letters of no confidence to the chairman of the party's 1922 Committee.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, tipped as a possible future prime minister if Mr Johnson is toppled, said Downing Street had not yet been given the findings of the Gray report but that it would come out very soon.

 

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