Former prime minister says Cabinet Office gave entries to the Met police without checking their contents
Boris Johnson has insisted the idea that evidence in diaries given to police might suggest further lockdown rule-breaking during the Covid pandemic is “absolute nonsense”.
Whitehall officials looking into the response to Covid by Johnson gave the information to the Metropolitan police and Thames Valley police about gatherings at Chequers and Downing Street. Johnson was fined for attending a gathering to mark his birthday in June 2020, months after he had been discharged from hospital when he had been seriously ill with Covid. It was one of the crises that marked his time in Downing Street and ultimately led to the end of his time as prime minister.
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