Boris Johnson said he was confident he had enough backing to survive as Prime Minister when asked by reporters during a trip to the North East.
The Prime Minister was in Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside, on Friday where he met fibre cable-laying trainees but he was faced with questions over partygate. When asked whether he was confident he had enough support he said he had already given "exhaustive answers" on the issue.
It comes amid Sue Gray report's revelations that late-night booze-fuelled bashes at Downing Street 'made a mockery' of lockdown rules. Mr Johnson told reporters: "Yes, but I think I gave some pretty vintage and exhaustive answers on all that subject the other day in the House of Commons. Then in a subsequent press conference.
