Gary accused the former PM of ‘constantly telling fibs’ (Picture: PA/Shutterstock)
Gary Lineker may have returned after his temporary suspension from the BBC, but he’s not holding back from sharing his opinions on social media.
The Match of the Day host, who was absent from screens before a quick U-turn after comparing the government’s immigration policy’s to Nazi Germany, has now weighed in on Boris Johnson’s defence over partygate.
The former Prime Minister has said he accepts he misled parliament, but it was what he believed at the time.
Johnson rejected the committee’s belief that the evidence strongly suggested breaches of coronavirus rules would have been ‘obvious’ to the then-prime minister.
But Gary isn’t having it.
He tweeted: ‘When folk constantly tell fibs, it’s really difficult to know when they’re telling the truth.
‘I imagine it’s even a challenge for themselves.’
Johnson called the inquiry’s allegation ‘illogical’ (Picture: Dan Kitwood-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
This comes after Johnson called the Privileges Committee inquiry’s allegation ‘illogical’, arguing that some of those who attended the events ‘wished me ill and would denounce me if I concealed the truth’.
‘Far from achieving a ‘cover-up’, I would have known that any deception on my part would lead to instant exposure. This would have been senseless and immediately self-defeating,’ he wrote.
He said it was ‘implausible’ that he would have known the parties photographed and ‘immortalised’ by his official photographer were rule-breaking.