Boris Johnson was advised the No 10 backyard get together “broke the principles” however stated it ought to go forward, Dominic Cummings claims.
An electronic mail despatched by “a really senior official” will present the prime minister “lied to parliament about events”, his exiled former chief aide says, in a brand new blogpost.
It comes after No 10 denied Mr Johnson was “warned about” a celebration, or that he advised aides objecting to the “convey your personal booze” occasion that they have been “overreacting”.
The defence is central to the prime minister’s much-ridiculed apology within the Commons final week – when he claimed he believed the gathering was “a piece occasion”.
In his submit, Mr Cummings says that, after Mr Johnson’s non-public secretary Martin Reynolds despatched the invitation “a really senior official replied by electronic mail saying the invite broke the principles”.
“This electronic mail shall be seen by Sue Grey (until there’s a silly coverup which might additionally most likely be a felony offence),” he has written – of the senior civil servant main the investigation.
Mr Cummings claims Mr Reynolds advised him he would “verify with the PM if he’s glad for it to go forward”, on 20 Might 2020.
“I’m positive he did verify with the PM. (I believe it very doubtless one other senior official spoke to the PM about it however I’m not positive),” the submit states.
And it provides: “The concept that the PPS [principal private secretary] can be challenged by two of probably the most senior individuals within the constructing, say he’d verify with the PM then not – shouldn’t be credible.”
Many MPs imagine Mr Johnson can not survive in workplace whether it is proven that he misled parliament along with his repeated denials that events occurred along with his data.
Mr Cummings has written: “The occasions of 20 Might alone, by no means thoughts the string of different occasions, imply the PM lied to Parliament about events.
“Not solely me however different eyewitnesses who mentioned this on the time would swear beneath oath that is what occurred.”
The contemporary allegations got here as one senior Tory backbencher warned individuals are actually “too indignant to forgive” Mr Johnson for the rash of lockdown-busting events.
“Proper now, listening to the general public who keep in mind very effectively all of the sacrifices they made, I believe individuals might be too indignant to forgive,” former minister Steve Baker stated.
Requested for the size of the anger in his Wycombe constituency, Mr Baker replied: “Completely livid.”
Kaynak: briturkish.com
