British PM denies lying about lockdown party

LONDON: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday "categorically" denied claims by his former chief aide that he lied to parliament about a Downing Street party held during a strict lockdown.

The revelations have sparked public fury, leading to a double-digit lead in polls for the main opposition Labour party over Johnson's Conservatives, and calls from some Tories for him to quit. "I can tell you categorically that nobody told me, nobody said this was something that was against the rules, that it was a breach of the COVID-19, that it was something that wasn't a work event," Johnson said."Frankly, I can't imagine why on earth it would have been allowed to go ahead," he told reporters on a visit to a London hospital.

But in the latest of an incendiary series of blog posts, Cummings wrote that he told Johnson that Downing Street was becoming a boozy"madhouse". The prime minister"waved it aside", he said. But Dominic Raab, the deputy premier and justice secretary, conceded that a proven lie by a minister"would normally under the ministerial code, and the governance around parliament, be a resigning matter".

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