But she branded comments made by Johnson in comparing women wearing the full veil to “letterboxes” and “bank robbers” as “indefensible.
He says: ''it's perfectly possible that people inside No.10 are quite enjoying dripping this stuff through''.
“I have no recollection of this at all. Yes, there were various wild parties, very perverse themes expressed… I can’t absolutely rule it out.”
It was a close call, but there was always going to be one MP who wanted to defend the PM for law breaking more emphatically than the others.
Amber Valley MP Nigel Mills said ‘we have every right to expect higher standards of people making these laws’.
A triple whammy of poor handling of the cost-of-living crisis, a scandal over his family's taxes and now a fine from the police has seen his odds plummet.
"Democracy requires - for voting for accountability - leaders who tell the truth," Rory Stewart said as the pressure gets piled on.
Just 6 per cent of the British public think the prime minister has told the truth about what happened. SIX per cent!
Michael Fabricant claimed that Johnson didn't realise he was breaking the law in a jaw-dropping interview.
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