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Right and needs to change. im sure youve seen the opinion polls over the weekend, as i have — roughly three quarters of people think that borisjohnson broke lockdown rules. only 8% not. 13% think that hes telling the truth, 64% convinced hes not. even people inside your own party, it seems, a preponderance of them believing that boris johnson should resign. these are opinion polls, which, for you as a politician, matter, dont they? well, ive been, like most of my colleagues, been in my constit...

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Minister into question. a new poll for "the observer" shows 63% of voters want prime minister boris johnson to quit. that follows allegations that at any 10 downing street held a series of office parties during lockdowns and possibly broke pandemic rules the rest of the country had to follow. salma adele aziz reports now. >> reporter: more allegations of partying and more problems for prime minister boris johnson. the latest coming from a british newspaper reporting that "wine time fridays" were...

Go back generations. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. in the uk allegations of another party at downing street are set to be included in the official investigation into events held at number ten during the pandemic. it comes after borisjohnsons former chief adviser, dominic cummings, claimed a senior official invited people to "socially distanced drinks" in the garden, while restrictions were in place in may 2020. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, has been following the story. one...

Welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, im karishma vaswani. the headlines. the us secretary of state is on his way to kyiv, as america warns russia could attack ukraine "at any point". well have the latest live from washington. amid claims he misled parliament, borisjohnson denies he was warned about a party at downing street that broke lockdown rules. nobody told me that what we were doing was, as you say, against the rules, that the event in question was something, we would do some...

Iain watson, bbc news. phillip sagar is vice president of the grantham & stamford conservative association. welcome, good morning. what do you think about borisjohnson now, then? im very disappointed, as are many of our members. we have had some mixed reaction both ways. we are gathering the opinions of association members as i speak, to get a balanced view, but the majority i have spoken to are disappointed because at a time when the majority of people follow the rules and laws imposed upon us,...

The lowest vaccination rates in the country. only around 60% of adults have received their first received their third boosterjab, so they put in place drive—through centres like this one just to make it as easy and as accessible as possible to try and bring those vaccination rates up. covid restrictions in scotland will be relaxed from monday. while people will still be asked to work from home, night clubs can reopen, large indoor events can resume and social distancing rules will be dropped. ...

Why on earth it would have gone ahead or why it would have been allowed to go ahead. >> nobody told him, he says. the denial comes after his former top aide said that the prime minister knew, in fact, that the parties violated lockdown rules. in a blog post, dominic cummings writes the events of 20 may alone, never mind the string of other events, mean the prime minister lied to parliament about parties, not only me but other eyewitnesses who discussed this at the time swear under oath this is w...

From their constituencies. stamford in lincolnshire is rock—solid tory turf. long—standing members of the conservative association were as one. if he wants to be remembered as a good prime minister then i think he has to consider, is it the time now to resign. i think it would be better if he just resigned, rather than waiting for a vote of confidence. i think he would get a lot more respect. a lot of the long serving - members in the association have very vocally said that its time for him ...

That was the invitation. to any sentient human being, that sounds like a party and it also sounds like it was a violation of lockdown rules at the time. and borisjohnson turned up. he was there. well, yes, he was, and hes given his explanation to parliament about that. the question is, with an event like that — and this is what i think sue gray really needs to get to the bottom of — is who knew about it in advance? you know, people supposedly raised objections about it. who were they? who si...