Boris Johnson defended Partygate boozing by telling Tory MPs Britain wouldn't have won the Second World War if alcohol had been banned in No10.
The Churchill-mad Prime Minister joked to backbenchers that booze had helped fuel the war effort in Downing Street, a Tory source said.
Mr Johnson tried to win over Tory MPs at a meeting of the 1922 Committee after Sue Gray's Partygate report said he must bear responsibility for lockdown-flouting gatherings.
