Boris Johnson has offered a “wholehearted apology” in his first Commons appearance since being fined by police for breaking his own lockdown rules.
The Prime Minister addressed MPs in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon.
He told MPs he did not knowingly break the rules at a 2020 birthday party at No 10, and has urged MPs to focus on pressing issues such as the invasion of Ukraine.
He said: “I paid the fine immediately and I offered the British people a full apology, and I take this opportunity on the first available sitting day to repeat my wholehearted apology to the House.”
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer branded the apology “a joke” and challenged Conservatives to jettison the PM.
Mr Johnson, along with his wife Carrie Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, were fined by the Metropolitan Police for attending a birthday party thrown in his honour in the Cabinet room in June 2020, while coronavirus restrictions were in place.
