NOW & THEN

Boris Johnson on Downing St parties

THEN (1 DECEMBER)

All guidance was followed completely in No 10

AND THEN (8 DECEMBER)

I repeat that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken

AND THEN (20 DECEMBER)

Those were people at work, talking about work… I have said what I have to say about that

AND THEN (12 JANUARY)

I believed implicitly that this was a work event

AND THEN (19 JANUARY)

I’m saying categorically that nobody told me, nobody said this was something that was against the rules, doing something that wasn’t a work event

NOW (26 JANUARY)

There is simply no way – as [Keir Starmer] knows, as a lawyer – that I can comment on the investigation that is currently taking place