The former prime minister said entries in his official diary handed over to police 'merely record events in my day'.
Johnson was previously fined for attending a gathering in Downing Street to mark his birthday in June 2020 – one of a series of political crises that ultimately led to the end of his premiership.
Asked whether he believes Sunak is trying to stitch him up, he said: “I just think it’s totally nonsensical and bizarre. There are tens of thousands of entries in the prime ministerial diary… None of them constitute a breach of the rules during Covid.”Johnson suggested none of the entries in question relate to periods when the country was in lockdown, but times when other restrictions were in place.
Sunak “definitely” did not go to the grace-and-favour retreat in contravention of coronavirus rules when he was chancellor during the pandemic, his press secretary said.Johnson, in a letter to the chair of the Covid inquiry, indicated he was severing ties with taxpayer-funded lawyers representing him.Labour leader Keir Starmer said earlier on Friday the public was “fed up to the back teeth” with stories about the former prime minister.
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