He says at all times he was entirely transparent with the House of Commons.
“I apologise, I apologise for inadvertently misleading this house, but to say I did it recklessly or deliberately is completely untrue, as the evidence shows,” he says.
He says officials in all government departments should be “immensely proud” that they protected the country from Covid and took them through the lockdowns – he also credits the vaccine rollout.
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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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