(ANSA) - LONDON, JAN 12 - British Prime Minister Boris Johnsonsi apologized in Parliament for the so-called 'party gate' linked to a meeting organized in Downing Street garden in May 2020 when the United Kingdom was still in lockdown.
He insisted that the rules would not be "technically violated", but he acknowledged the country's anger.
But the opposition is not enough: the Labor leader KeirStarmer has challenged the Conservative Prime Minister in Parliament to stand up after admitting responsibility. Starmer called Johnson's apology "worthless", accusing him of having wronged the House and the British people, sparking their furore. Johnson - clearly in trouble - replied by saying to take responsibility, but denied that the event was a party and entrenched himself behind the results of an internal investigation.
In particular, the latest revelations on one of the meetings organized in the garden of his official residence in 2020, in violation of the restrictions of the Covid lockdown in force at the time, organized on May 20 by the head of his secretariat, Martin Reynolds: with a hundred invitations and a which the British Conservative Prime Minister appears to have participated in person alongside about forty officials who actually attended and First Lady Carrie.
The emails of Reynolds' circular invitation, leaked to the media this week with the indication to the guests to bring a drink, and the testimonies of the personal presence of BoJo have raised the uproar.
According to the Telegraph, a friendly newspaper, Johnson is currently "losing consensus" in the Tory household, as well as among the electorate (polls in hand), and beyond the outrage of oppositions and organizations of family members of victims of the pandemic.
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