Fines for covid lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street are “not the most important issue in the world” given atrocities in Ukraine, Jacob Rees-Mogg has claimed.
The Tory cabinet minister who previously described revelations about the parties as “fluff” argued that that Boris Johnson did not mislead people over the events.
Taking part in a phone-in show on LBC radio, Rees-Mogg declined a caller’s request to apologise for calling the party claims “fluff” now that the Metropolitan Police had issued fines to some people who attended the lockdown gatherings.
He said: “We have a war going on in Ukraine, we have atrocities being carried out, we have pictures coming through that show the enormous brutality of Putin’s army.“And what I was saying was, in the context of what is going on, not just with Ukraine but with the cost of living crisis, this is not the most important issue in the world.
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