(ANSA) - LONDON, MAY 03 - Boris Johnson continues to judge himself as an "honest" politician in response to the accusations of dishonesty that the opposition - Labor in the head - move him in particular because of the so-called Partygate scandal (for which he was recently fined in first person from the police) relating to gatherings organized in Downing Street in violation of the anti Covid restrictions in force between 2020 and 2021.
Interviewed on the morning talk show Good Morning Britain, on Itv, where he reappeared today after 5 years two days after a round of local administrative elections that could cost his party and possibly his own leadership, the British Tory Prime Minister is back to admit he said inaccuracies in the past in Parliament (when excluding the rules in the contested venues), but of having done it in good faith: "inadvertently".
"I was wrong and I apologized for it" in the House of Commons, he stressed by replying to the interviewer that he was pressing him and asking to respond to that part of public opinion that considers him a liar.
He then insisted that he does not intend to step down, but wants to "get on with the job" of prime minister.
Among the themes of the electoral campaign, Johnson also touched on that of the expensive bills triggered by the increase in energy costs linked to the post-pandemic and the first effects of the sanctions for the Russian invasion of Ukraine: claiming his government to have allocated 9 billion of pounds in subsidies, but admitting that there is a need to do "even more" in support of the most exposed families, communities and businesses.
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