Deputy Labor leader Angela Reiner spoke after the Sunday Times reported that a rally on Downing Street on Friday, November 13, 2020 took the form of a retirement party only after Johnson arrived and started pouring drinks. He said: “While the British public made enormous sacrifices, Boris Johnson was breaking the law. “If the latest reports are true, it would mean that not only did the prime minister attend a party, but he also helped to provoke at least one of them. It has deliberately misled the British people at every turn. “The prime minister has downgraded his office. The British people deserve better. “While Labor has a plan to tackle the cost of living crisis, Tory MPs are very busy defending Boris Johnson’s defenseless actions.” The revelation will intensify calls for a debate in the Commons this week on whether Johnson lied to parliament when he repeatedly told lawmakers that the parties did not take place at No. 10 and that Covid rules were being followed at all times. Opposition parties have stated they will not run in the by-elections. Johnson has already said he intends to break the record when lawmakers return to the Commonwealth on Tuesday after the Easter break. It will be his first appearance in the room since he was fined for breaking the lockdown rules at a rally in June 2020 to celebrate his birthday and he is expected to apologize again for what he claims was an unintentional violation of the rules. However, Johnson continues to insist that he never deliberately misled MPs in his many comments about Partygate in the House of Commons. The ministerial code says that deliberately misleading MPs – lying to them – is a matter of resignation. Every time Boris Johnson denied and rejected claims for the partygate – video Johnson faces three more fines for Partygate, one of which relates to an event he attended to mark the departure of Lee Kane, his communications director, in November 2020. According to the Sunday Times, this did not look like a retirement party until Johnson himself appeared. “He said he wanted to say a few words about Lee and started pouring drinks for people and drinking himself,” a source told the newspaper. This account was confirmed to the Guardian by a source who knows what happened. No one had planned a departure in advance – although it was common at the time for the press office staff to drink on Friday nights – but apparently when Johnson encouraged people to attend, the staff felt compelled. The police investigate this fact and another concentration on the same day in the Downing Street of the Prime Minister, where his wife, Kari Johnson, allegedly made a party to mark the retirement of Cain and the ally of Dominic Camnigs, who It was Johnson’s. Chief Advisor. In December last year, Labor MP Kathryn West asked Johnson directly at the PMQ if she had a party on Downing Street on November 13. Johnson replied: “No, but I’m sure that no matter what happened, the instructions were followed and the rules were followed at all times.” On Sunday, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas revealed that she had written to House President Sir Lindsay Hoyle asking if she would allow Johnson and Chancellor Risi Sunak to be held accountable by lawmakers for a misleading parliament. Sunak also received a fixed sentence notification last week for attending the prime minister’s birthday party – he claims by mistake – despite telling lawmakers he did not attend any parties. In her letter, Lucas said: “It is … appropriate for MPs to have a way of controlling what happened and for [Johnson and Sunak] can be found in contempt of parliament “. Lucas added that the matter could be referred to the Standards Committee or the Privileges Committee, or MPs could vote on a proposal saying Johnson despised parliament. “The latter would be the fastest and therefore potentially more appropriate,” he said. Opposition parties have stated they will not run in the by-elections, saying “Johnson is likely to win because of the size of the Conservative majority.” But they say it would be a shame for Tory lawmakers to have to vote to acquit him. On Sunday, Brexit Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg told Radio 4 The World This Weekend that he believed Johnson had spoken “in good faith” about Partygate. Referring to the punishment for the birthday party, Rees-Mogg said: “Many people would think that it was according to the rules, when they met people with whom they were daily, who happened to wish them happy birthday, because that was the day it was. “I think it made perfect sense to believe that. Now the police have decided differently and the police have power. “But he did not think anything irrational or irrational, that he was within the rules.”
