A top Tory has said Boris Johnson did not mislead Parliament over Partygate as he was given the "wrong information" and blamed the scandal on the Government's "inhuman" Covid rules.
Jacob Rees-Mogg refused to apologise for branding the row over law-breaking Downing Street parties as "fluff" and "fundamentally trivial" and said the scandal was "not the most important issue in the world" given the war in Ukraine.
In a clash with an angry caller on LBC, he claimed the Prime Minister - who is being investigated by police over Partygate - had not misled Parliament when he told MPs no rules had been broken.
