Johnson says the fact details of the birthday gathering he was fined for were briefed to the Times newspaper is evidence of the “innocence” with which the event was regarded, adding that it did not jump out at the journalist or “eagle-eyed” readers of the newspaper.
“Hindsight is a wonderful thing. we’re talking about what I believed at the time,” he says, on whether social distancing guidance should have been more “ruthlessly enforced” in Downing Street.
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