British PM denies lying about lockdown party

British political strategist who served as chief adviser to UK prime minister from July 2019 until Nov 2020

Johnson is battling damaging allegations that he and staff attended boozy events during Covid restrictions, prompting an investigation by senior civil servant Sue Gray. But his combative former senior adviser Dominic Cummings, who has been waging a vendetta against Johnson since leaving Downing Street in late 2020, said he warned his then boss about the event at the time.

Johnson's denials have been carefully worded, appearing to clear him of any personal blame even if there was wrongdoing by staff, and relying on a narrow exemption for work gatherings during lockdowns.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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