partygate
"So he could say goodbye to a work colleague, but people couldn’t say goodbye to a dying relative?”
The prime minister looks to have survived the day, but the privileges committee and the public will soon also deliver a verdict.
Even some Tories seemed unable to believe how the prime minister was trying to justify the scandal.
Sue Gray's report is not damaging enough to trigger a Tory MP uprising, meaning the prime minister is safe.
“I had no knowledge of the subsequent proceedings as I simply wasn’t there," Boris Johnson said.
There was "wine on the walls", "sick", and bad treatment of cleaners. But "we seem to have got away with it".
"When they were texting colleagues about getting away with it, we were having to text our families telling them they couldn’t come to their loved ones’ funerals."
The Labour leader turned the prime minister's joke on himself, saying: "I'm told hindsight is a wonderful thing!"
The senior civil servant said there was "no excuse" for the lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street and Whitehall.
George Eustice insisted Boris Johnson had not lied to parliament.