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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aubrey Allegretti Political correspondent

Partygate: Boris Johnson will hide behind ‘unknowingly’ defence

A police officer outside No 10
A confidence vote would probably be whipped, meaning it is likely to fail thanks to Johnson’s huge majority. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Rex/Shutterstock

When Boris Johnson takes to the dispatch box on Tuesday, for the first time in weeks, his allies will roar their support – an attempt to immediately dispel any questions about confidence in his leadership.

While the prime minister might appear at times contrite for breaking Covid laws during England’s first Covid lockdown, he is expected to maintain that at the time he did not believe he was doing anything wrong.

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