The differing accounts set up an extraordinary parliamentary clash between MPs and the former prime minister on Wednesday
differs in many ways from the Privileges Committee’s interim report published earlier this month – setting up an extraordinary parliamentary clash between MPs and the former prime minister on Wednesday.: It would have been “obvious” to Mr Johnson that parties were taking place in breach of Covid guidance, because he attended several of the gatherings himself, and they were in his place of work and residence.
Mr Johnson said: “We tried to keep our distance, but we knew that proximity was sometimes unavoidable, and we knew that this was acceptable under the Guidance.” Of the events he attended, he says: “I honestly believed that these events were lawful work gatherings.” When he told the Commons on 1 and 8 December 2021 that the guidance and rules were followed, he says “I did not know that any of the events that I had attended later escalated beyond what was lawful after I left.”: Mr Johnson knew the gatherings were not within Covid guidance or regulations because a No 10 official has given evidence that, during a speech at a leaving do on 27 November 2020, Mr Johnson said: “This is probably the most unsocially distanced gathering in the UK right now”.
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