In response to the report from Sue Gray he apologised for all the Covid rule breaking parties held in No. 10. The parties held as the majority of the public followed the Covid rules announced in his own daily televised briefings from No.10.
He apologised.
He took full responsibility.
He said he hadn't lied to the House of Commons when he said No. 10 had followed the Covid rules, because he believed he was attending work events.
He said he had been humbled and had learnt a lesson.
He said in response to all of this that at No.10 the entire senior management had been changed.
He said his party is going to go on and win the next general election.
And maybe they will given he and his collegaues have played us all for fools. Leaving it to us, the little people, to follow the rules. Which they plainly don't think apply to themselves.
Perhaps the only question left for Boris, given what the content of the Sue Gray report, is,
"How will you change Boris?"
Some detail
In the Commons today just after 12:42 the Prime Minister, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, responding to the Sue Gray Report, apologised. He took "full responsibility for everything that took place on my watch".
In doing so he "set out the context, not to mitigate or to absolve myself in any way" and that "I am happy to set on the record now that when I came to this House and said in all sincerity that the rules and guidance had been followed at all times, it was what I believed to be true".
In response to the report's findings the PM reported that at No. 10 "The entire senior management has changed".
He concluded "by saying that I am humbled, and I have learned a lesson" and that he was grateful to Sue Gray for her report and due to it "we will be able to move on and focus on the priorities of the British people".
A variety of those in the House of Commons Chamber responded to the PM's statement and I've picked out a couple of the PM's responses below:
- "at the time when I spoke to this House, I believed that what I was doing was attending work events, and, with the exception of the event in the Cabinet Room, that is a view that has been vindicated by the investigation";
- "we are going to go on and win the next general election".
Hansard record for 22/5/22 from which the quotes above are taken.
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