Boris Johnson’s dad Stanley defends Prime Minister over Partygate and urges everyone to ‘move on’ from scandal-Stella Akinwumi-Entertainment – Metro

Boris Johnson was fined for breaking government laws in April this year (Picture: PA / Talk TV)

Boris Johnson’s dad Stanley Johnson came to his son’s defence after he faced intense scrutiny over the Downing Street Partygate scandal.

On April 12, it was announced that the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak had been fined for breaking laws the government put into place at the height of the pandemic by attending parties.

Mr Johnson’s wife, Carrie Johnson, was also penalised for being present at a party in Number 10 during lockdown, with celebrities including Piers Morgan and Gary Lineker expressing their fury over the politicians’ flouting of the regulations.

Slamming the critics on Tuesday’s edition of Piers Morgan Uncensored, the former politician, 81, told the TalkTV presenter, 57, that his son had made all the right calls on big issues and blasted claims his son was amoral as ‘garbage.’

‘It’s not about the parties,’ said Piers.

‘It’s about the time that he and his government were locking people in their homes and they couldn’t go and see dying relatives, who were literally dying in hospital because of Covid, that was the rule of the law.’

Stanley Johnson defended his son over the Partygate backlash (Picture: Talk TV)

Boris Johnson apologised for what happened in Downing Street during the pandemic (Picture: PA)

As Piers continued, Stanley stopped him and replied: ‘No, well, I don’t actually see it in that way.

‘Because I see it as something happened on the 19th June 2020, which was just a few weeks after he came out of hospital having been really seriously ill. He steps by for 20 minutes, it’s his birthday, it wasn’t a birthday party party.’

‘He broke his own law Stanley,’ Piers remarked.

The Prime Minister’s wife Carrie Johnson was also fined for attending the party (Picture: PA)

‘Come on Piers… OK. I think that it is time to move on from that,’ Stanley insisted.

‘You know, it was a situation where, yes, he had a drink… he had a glass in his hand and that is it! And that was the end of it.’

While Piers stressed that the Prime Minister was ‘doing one thing and preaching another,’ a frustrated Stanley pleaded for everyone to focus on things ‘which really matter, which are the things he is doing now.’

When Mr Johnson disclosed that he had been fined in a televised statement, he said: ‘I have to say, in all frankness, at that time it did not occur to me that this might have been a breach of the rules.

‘But of course the police have found otherwise and I fully respect the outcome of their investigation.’

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Labour leader Keir Starmer said that in his opinion, Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak should ‘both resign’ after breaking the law and ‘repeatedly lying to the British public’.

Mr Johnson is the first sitting Prime Minister to have been found to have broken the law, despite insisting for months that all Covid guidance had been followed during the partygate scandal.

Piers Morgan: Uncensored airs weekdays from 8pm on TalkTV. 

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