Boris Johnson needs to explain how his partygate fine did not break the Ministerial Code, his chief ethics adviser has suggested.
Lord Geidt warned there is a “legitimate question” about whether an illegal birthday party on 19 June 2020 broke the ethics rules guiding all members of government.
Amid rumours that he was prepared to quit his role as an independent ethics adviser, Lord Geidt demanded Boris Johnson account in public for whether or not he thought he broke the Code.
