Seven out of ten voters think Boris Johnson has not been honest about his account of attending a lockdown breaking party in Downing Street, a poll for the Times has found.
Johnson told MPs he had briefly attended the staff party in the Downing Street garden in May 2020 but insisted at the time that he thought it was a work event.
In fact it had been organised by his principal private secretary who told those invited to “bring their own booze”.
The YouGov survey found that 70 per cent of voters did not believe Johnson’s account to the Commons including over half of those who voted Conservative in the 2019 election.
Eight out of ten said they did not think the event, as described