Boris Johnson calls new lockdown rule-breaking claims 'load of nonsense'

Boris Johnson has insisted that determination is thing successful his diary entries that shows further rule-breaking during the Covid pandemic.

The erstwhile PM was approached by Sky News earlier catching a formation successful Washington - and said immoderate caller claims of rule-breaking were "absolute nonsense".

He said the diary entries were "completely innocent".

He added that the diaries, from his clip successful Downing Street, "merely grounds entries successful my day".

The abbreviated interrogation is Mr Johnson's archetypal nationalist remark connected the latest improvement and helium said: "This full happening is simply a load of nonsense from opening to end."

Mr Johnson, who is presently being investigated by the privileges committee implicit whether helium lied to parliament implicit his repeated Partygate denials. questioned wherefore the Cabinet Office had handed implicit entries from his diary to constabulary without archetypal querying them with him.

"I deliberation it's ridiculous that elements successful my diary should beryllium cherry-picked and handed implicit to the constabulary [and] to the Privileges Committee without adjacent anybody having the basal communal consciousness to inquire maine what these entries referred to."

The Times, which archetypal broke the story astir Mr Johnson's diaries, said the entries revealed visits by Mr Johnson's friends to Chequers - the PM's state property - and events successful Downing Street during the pandemic.

Bur Mr Johnson told Sky: "There are tens of thousands of entries successful the premier ministerial diary - nary of them represent a breach of the rules during Covid."