Boris Johnson says Downing Street staff were unfairly maligned and some representations were ‘absolutely absurd’
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Boris Johnson said there was nothing he could have reasonably done to stop lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street, calling media coverage and TV adaptations of these events “absurd” and “a travesty of the truth”.
In evidence to the UK Covid-19 inquiry that seems likely to anger bereaved relatives’ groups, Johnson argued that the gatherings primarily involved staff trying to work hard in difficult circumstances.
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