Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to give a statement to Parliament later today (Tuesday, April 19). It will see Mr Johnson address MPs for the first time since he received a £50 fixed penalty notice for breaking lockdown rules.
And while he is set to make a full apology, it is understood the PM will not address allegations he instigated a separate lockdown leaving do. He is likely to focus on the crisis in Ukraine, along with the Government’s controversial new policy on sending “illegal” migrants to Rwanda.
Last week the PM was fined by the Metropolitan Police for attending a birthday bash thrown in his honour in the Cabinet room in June 2020, while coronavirus restrictions were in place. He was then accused over the weekend of not only attending a leaving party for his former communications chief Lee Cain on November 13 2020, but instigating the do.
