They were the 12 words that ultimately brought down a prime minister and if Boris Johnson didn’t know it then, he will almost certainly know it now.
In a Commons showing believed to have been key to the findings of the report, the then prime minister stood at the despatch box at Prime Minister’s Questions at 12.28pm on Wednesday, 8 December 2021. He was answering a question from Labour MP Catherine West, eight days after the first reports of Downing Street gatherings emerged.
