Boris Johnson has denied overriding security concerns to secure a peerage for Lord Lebedev.
The Prime Minister today said the claims are "simply incorrect" and added it would "obviously be extraordinary" if he had intervened to secure his Russian-born friend's peerage.
The PM avoided responding to a question on whether he met Lord Lebedev in March 2020, at the height of the first wave of the pandemic, to discuss the peerage.
