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Boris Johnson: 'Nobody Warned Me Lockdown Party Was Against the Rules'
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January 18, 2022
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2:02Now PlayingBoris Johnson denied he was warned not to go ahead with a party in his office garden during the first pandemic lockdown in May 2020, after his former aide accused the U.K. prime minister of lying over the affair.
“I can tell you categorically that nobody told me and said that this was something that was against the rules, that was a breach of the Covid rules or you’re doing something that wasn’t a work event,” Johnson said in a pooled interview broadcast Tuesday. “Frankly I can’t imagine why on earth it would have gone ahead anyway, or why it would have been allowed to go ahead.”
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