Boris Johnson criticizes committee

• Johnson argued that the committee had not gathered any evidence.
• That he had lied, but rather that the rules had been infringed without his knowledge.
• Boris Johnson claims that I haven’t been the subject of any worries regarding gatherings.

Boris Johnson said the whole of the No 10 operation “knew how vital it was to maintain public confidence in the fight against Covid”.

They all realized they needed to follow through on the request they made to the general public, he continued.

Johnson pointed to the testimony of his former aide Dominic Cummings, who he said had “every motive to lie” and was not supported by “documentary evidence”.

The committee, according to him, had not gathered any evidence that he had lied, but rather that the rules had been infringed without his knowledge.

The former prime minister claimed he wanted the committee to publish all of the information it generated, but it did not.

He further claimed that the panel had disallowed his legal team from submitting its own supporting documentation.

Johnson emphasized some of the committee’s information about potential rule-breaking parties while downplaying other evidence in his statement.

Photos show him “getting a few words of thanks at a work event”, he said.

Or, Johnson asserted, they show “events which I was never fined for attending”.

 He claimed that if laws were broken, it must have been “obvious” to everyone else, including the current prime minister, Rishi Sunak.

Boris Johnson claims that I haven’t been the subject of any worries regarding gatherings.

Johnson claimed the committee had “found nothing to show that I was warned in advance that events in No 10 were illegal”.

 Furthermore, he claimed that neither before nor after any occurrences, anyone expressed any “anxieties”.

If there had been such an anxiety this “unquestionably would have been escalated to me”, he said.

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