Angela Rayner responds to new revelations aired on ITV News podcast 'Partygate: The Inside Story'

Angela Rayner MP, Labour's Deputy Leader, responding to the new revelations aired on the ITV News podcast 'Partygate: The Inside Story', said:

"As the disgraced former Prime Minister plots his comeback, he reminds us all yet again why he's totally unfit for office.

"While people were unable to say goodbye to loved ones or mourn with their families, he was breaking his own rules with reckless abandon and then lying to the British people.

"Conservative MPs were complicit while Rishi Sunak personally propped him up for months as he set about degrading standards in public life. This joke's not funny anymore."

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• 'ITV News podcast reveals Boris Johnson joked about 'the most unsocially distanced party in the UK' - ITV News, 11 January