The partygate inquiry has stated that there are strong suggestions that breaches of Covid rules would have been "obvious" to Boris Johnson.
The cross-party Privileges Committee said the House of Commons could have been misled on multiple occasions. The former Prime Minister remarked that a mid-pandemic leaving party in No 10 was “probably the most unsocially distanced gathering in the UK right now”, according to written evidence.
In WhatsApp messages shown to the inquiry, it was revealed that advisers were "struggling" to conclude how the parties were within the rules in place at the time.
One adviser admitted that it "blows another great gaping hole in the PM's account". Read more: The gang who used the vulnerable, Covid and a city centre hotel to peddle misery to thousands In a statement released by Mr Johnson, he claimed that the inquiry's interim report displayed that he was being "vindicated" after raising concerns around civil service investigator Sue Gray's move to Sir Keir Starmer's office.
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