LONDON, April 19 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will apologize to parliament on Tuesday, in his first speech to the assembly since being fined by police for breaking his own lockdown rules, said a government official.
Boris Johnson was fined last week for attending a birthday party held in his honor in June 2020, when indoor gatherings were banned for people from different households due to the coronavirus outbreak. COVID-19.
The opposition have called for the Prime Minister’s resignation, accusing him of misleading Parliament after he said last year that during the pandemic all health restrictions had been adhered to at Downing Street, the official residence and the prime minister’s workplace.
“When he addressed Parliament he said what he believed to be the truth,” Brandon Lewis, Britain’s minister for Northern Ireland, told Sky News.
Boris Johnson said last week he didn’t think he had broken the rules but had now “humbly” accepted that was the case.
Opposition parties are currently debating how best to punish Boris Johnson, either by calling for a vote on whether he is in contempt of parliament or by sending him to a parliamentary committee.
“It’s just unbelievable that the Prime Minister is saying he didn’t know,” Labor MP Emily Thornberry told Sky News. “He should tell us that he lied, that he misled Parliament and that he should resign.” (Report Kylie MacLellan, James Davey and Andrew MacAskill, French version Augustin Turpin)
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