Ministers and MPs are among those drinking too much due to work pressures, a Tory backbencher has said, rejecting an attempt at the Tory party conference to blame the Partygate scandal on a culture of drinking within the civil service.
Jeremy Wright, a member of a standards watchdog committee linked to the Cabinet Office, also told the event that “what went wrong” during Partygate was that the tone set by Johnson’s leadership meant a large number of civil servants and advisers believed they could hold parties despite being in breach of the law.
