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Is it time for Boris to go?
Johnson admits he attended drinks party during first Lockdown.


Boris Johnson apologised after admitting he attended a party at Downing Street during lockdown 


He said he thought it was a work event but now admits he should have sent everyone back inside.

Boris Johnson has apologised after admitting he attended a "bring your own booze event" in the No 10 garden during the first Covid lockdown.

The embattled prime minister said he believed the May 20 gathering was legal because it was a work event but admitted "there would be millions and million of people who would not see it that way."

"I know the rage they feel with me and the government I lead when they think, in Downing Street itself, the rules are not being properly followed by the people making the rules," he said.

"I have learned enough to know there were things we simply did not get right and I must take responsibility."

He said he was at the event for 25 minutes to thank his staff before he went back to work in his office.

"With hindsight I should have sent everyone back inside, and I should have found some other way to thank them," he said.

The Tory leader, who is fighting to save his premiership, acknowledged that during lockdown people had "suffered terribly, people who were forbidden for meeting loved ones at all inside or outside."

"To them and to this House, I offer my heartfelt apologies," he said.
PM should resign — Starmer

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for Johnson's resignation after describing his apology as "the pathetic spectacle of a man who has run out of road."

"His defence that he didn't realise he was at a party is so ridiculous that it's actually offensive," he said.

"He's finally been forced to admit that when the whole country was in lockdown, he was hosting boozy parties in Downing Street.

"The party’s over, prime minister. The only question is will the British public kick him out, will his party kick him out or will he do the decent thing and resign?”

Allegations that rule-breaking parties were held in Downing Street first emerged last year but new evidence surfaced on Monday in the form of an email that suggested more than 100 people were invited to the May 20 event.

Johnson’s principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds, invited colleagues to “socially distanced drinks” to “make the most of the lovely weather."

The other parties calling for the PMs resignation 
The prime minister has faced growing anger from across the political spectrum over the allegations.

Jim Shannon, an MP from Northern Ireland, broke down in tears in the Commons on Tuesday night while describing the lonely death of his mother-in-law.

Johnson said senior official Sue Gray should be allowed to complete her inquiry into a series of alleged parties held during lockdown in No 10 and Whitehall “so that the full facts can be established".

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