It should have been the roughest week of Boris Johnson’s premiership but the Prime Minister will be counting his blessings as he boarded his flight to India for a whirlwind 48-hour trade and diplomatic blitz.
Opposition parties will say he is running fast to escape the quagmire of the partygate scandal.
An embarrassing Commons debate later today will chew over whether he misled parliament, basically lied, by claiming Downing Street adhered to all the rules during lockdown.
