Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner says Boris Johnson is “at the end of the road”, after the PM denied knowing a drinks party held in his back garden during lockdown would breach Covid rules.
Now, an exclusive poll for The Independent has revealed that 65 per cent of voters and more than half (54 per cent) of Conservative supporters do not believe the PM’s claim he thought the 20 May 2020 drinks in the Downing Street rose garden was a “work event”.
A further 80 per cent, including 73 per cent of those who voted Tory in 2019, agreed that under Johnson there was “one rule for the government and another for everybody else.”
It follows a tense interview between Mr Johnson and Sky’s Beth Rigby earlier, during which the PM became flustered as she grilled him on his “ludicrous” claim that he thought the 20 May 2020 event was work-related.
The Tory leader insisted he “categorically” was not warned the party was unlawful, despite ex-No 10 adviser Dominic Cummings claiming Mr Johnson pushed for it to go ahead and attended knowing full-well “it was a drinks party”.
