Fines for covid lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street are “not the most important issue in the world” given atrocities in Ukraine, Jacob Rees-Mogg has claimed.
The Tory cabinet minister who previously described revelations about the parties as “fluff” argued that that Boris Johnson did not mislead people over the events.
Taking part in a phone-in show on LBC radio, Rees-Mogg declined a caller’s request to apologise for calling the party claims “fluff” now that the Metropolitan Police had issued fines to some people who attended the lockdown gatherings.
