UK PM Boris Johnson was warned against lockdown party, says former adviser - BBC News

Honestly, irrelevant of the truth of the matter, if you cannot tell the difference between a party and a work meeting, should you really be running a country? Also, if you are willing to gamble with public safety, to gain their support and deflect scrutiny, in a time of national crisis, should you really be running a country?

The language the BBC is using surrounding this issue stinks of an attempt to distance Johnson from accountability. Factually speaking, everyone involved in these parties were actively breaking the law. That is not up for debate. Take ownership for once.

Ministers have resigned for much less in the past.

At that time work events were not allowed unless they were necessary to do the work and couldn't be done over zoom. Thanking people for their work could be done over zoom. Even if what Boris claims was true, it still wasn't allowed.

when you elect a court jester to rule the nation

"Nobody told me it was against the rules." This was the PM's latest defense. Staggering, absolutely staggering.

Why is Boris hiding? All this time he's barely been away yet as soon as he's under fire, a "family member has covid". Great timing

Never know a 'work meeting' to include a suitcase full of booze.

Even if he actually thought it was a job event, and even if the party followed all the covid rules, it was still an error of judgement to host it, and to be there… if he couldn’t even tell at the time that was inappropriate , I don’t see how he should be making decisions that can have grave impact on our lives

So you can’t have a party in the UK? But the politicians can?

Imagine thinking covid is serious when the same people claiming it's serious are partying together without masks

What I find embarassing is that you can hardly see members of parliament and government speaking up that they don't need a Sue Grey-report ( approved by the prime minister ) to come to the conclusion that this was just too much to be justified.

This man is a born liar. Now saying he didn’t know it’s was against the rules when he the one that made the rules 🤬🤬🤬🤬

The Great British Public love him as he shows what they aspire to get away with.

I wish they would all resign and we can have real people that care about the country in charge

"Curse your sudden yet inevitable betrayal" - Boris to Cummings

If I remember correctly, Cummings broke the rules himself, he is constantly after the PM.

He is past his sell by date and needs to resign now. He never will though. Any normal person would be embarrassed to act so clingingly needy. Having that job is his whole life and he will never resign but like I say its embarrassing to and for the British people. He has to go he is nothing but a joke and a source of shame. Dominic Raab is a born liar and therefore his opinion is irrelevant.

People aren't angry, they've had enough of Boris's lies and obfuscations. Be gone Boris, just go.

Call a general election for May 2022 and let the people decide.