A senior Tory minister "feel the same anger" as the public over partygate but is standing by Boris Johnson after he was fined for breaching covid lockdown regulations.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps was sent out by the government to defend the Prime Minister and Chancellor Rishi Sunak after they received fixed penalty notices from the Metropolitan Police for attending a party on Number 10 in June 2020.
Johnson and Sunak politicians said they now accepted the rules had been broken, neither appeared to be considering their positions, as they said they wanted to get on with the job.
