Boris Johnson’s sister Rachel Johnson has stood up for him amid the ongoing ‘partygate’ scandal, saying that the Number 10 garden party “would have been work”.
During Rachel Johnson’s radio show on LBC, the host opened the show explaining her point of view on the actions of her brother, the Prime Minister.
Rachel said: “As you might’ve guessed, it hasn’t been the quietest, calmest of weeks in the Johnson family.”
She went on to discuss the Prime Minister’s “character” and what she knows of her brother.
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'If my brother went into the garden then, for him, that would've been work.'
— LBC (@LBC) January 16, 2022
Rachel Johnson breaks her silence on the Downing Street parties.@RachelSJohnson pic.twitter.com/LZcqAX8P1H
She continued: “Look, I’m just telling you what I saw, and just telling you what I saw over lockdown and what I know of my brother’s character.
“And to my mind, if he did go out into the garden, and he’s told us he did, for him that would have been work.
“He may have had a drink. I don’t know, is that one of the key questions? But that would have been work.”
Her remarks don’t appear to have gone down particularly well, with one person calling the Johnsons a “pathetic classless family”.
What a pathetic classless family https://t.co/k8Ln0WJ14I
— Darren McGarvey (@lokiscottishrap) January 16, 2022
One person commented: “Rachel Johnson misreads the room, in fact misreads the country.”
Rachel Johnson misreads the room, in fact misreads the country https://t.co/4eGmfDvljg
— Louis 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 〓〓 💙 Defend the right to vote (@LouisHenwood) January 16, 2022
Another, wrote: “So the sister of the prime minister has a talk show where she defends his indefensible actions?
“If this happened in another country we’d mock its tinpot claims to being a modern democracy.”
So the sister of the prime minister has a talk show where she defends his indefensible actions? If this happened in another country we’d mock its tinpot claims to being a modern democracy. https://t.co/p6NvOqc9bc
— Ewan Gibbs (@ewangibbs) January 16, 2022
Someone else joked: “This is Boris in a wig.”
This is Boris in a wig. https://t.co/7sQW7gHtkp
— Spagliatelle (@YesMissMurphy) January 17, 2022
Another retorted: “Who does she think he is? Alan Titchmarsh?”
Who does she think he is? Alan Titchmarsh? https://t.co/eRF8ibAb8q
— Scott Wortley (@Scott_Wortley) January 16, 2022
It doesn’t look like partygate is going away any time soon.
