But justice secretary says he has been assured by prime minister no Covid restrictions were breached
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A “formal party” in Downing Street last December would have been contrary to Covid-19 guidance, the justice secretary Dominic Raab has admitted, saying it would have been “the wrong thing to do”.
But the lord chancellor told BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show he had been assured by Boris Johnson that no rules had been broken over the reported gathering last year, despite reports from multiple sources across several newspapers.
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