Ministers today tried to shrug off Boris Johnson’s Partygate debacle despite Tory fears it has inflicted massive political damage, insisting the PM ‘got the big calls right’.
No10 chief of staff Steve Barclay insisted the PM is ‘honourable’ despite the Sue Gray report painting a grim picture of staff boozing, fighting and vomiting in offices while the rest of the country was in a brutal lockdown.
And he appealed for MPs and the public to move on, saying Mr Johnson is focused on the Ukraine…
