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LONDON – Boris Johnson is facing further pressure as two ministers slammed him over lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street - just hours after Dominic Cummings said he would take the stand having accused the Prime Minister (PM) of misleading Parliament.

The PM’s former top adviser said last night that he discussed a May 2020 ‘BYOB’ event with Johnson before it happened but his concerns were ‘waved aside’.

The claim contradicts Johnson’s statement to the House of Commons last Wednesday.

Ahead of PMQs he insisted that he

LONDON – Prince Charles has invited Prince Harry and his family to stay with him in the United Kingdom (UK) in the hope of meeting Lilibet for the first time, it emerged tonight.

The Prince of Wales is yet to see his granddaughter face-to-face, after she was born in California in June last year. The offer, which would be the first time the family has fully come together since Harry and Meghan decided to quit as working royals, was made just before believed that the knees-up organised by his principal private Secretary Martin Reynolds - currently being probed by senior civil servant Sue Gray - was a work event that did not breach regulations.

Downing Street has mounted a fullscale rescue plan to bolster the PM after last week’s astonishing slew of revelations, code-named Operation Red Meat, and has fiercely denied Cummings’ claims.

Scandals

Elsewhere, two of Johnson’s ministers have openly criticised No.10 over Partygate, warning the scandals have caused ‘serious damage’ to public trust in the government. Science Minister

George Freeman said he was ‘shocked and flabbergasted’ by the revelations, and questioned why staff were able to enjoy such gatherings while his constituents ‘couldn’t see dying loved ones’, according to the Times.

Similarly, Health Minister Maria Caulfield insisted that regardless of whether the rules were ‘technically’ breached or not by the parties, ‘the spirit of the rules’ was.

She added that she would ‘consider what action is needed’ when Gray’s report into the events is published.

It comes after Cummings suggested in a post on his Substack blog on Monday, that worse might still be to come for No.10.