Peter Risdon News Today

The Chancellor was more than 200 miles rom Westminster as the Prime Minister apologised for attending a drinks event in his back garden while they were banned in May 2020.

The Chancellor, a potential successor as Tory leader who avoided PMQs by travelling 200 miles from London to Devon, said on Twitter that Mr Johnson was right to apologise over the party scandal.

The Prime Ministers wife was said to be deep in conversation with Henry Newman (pictured together), a former protégé of Michael Gove who worked on the Vote Leave campaign.

As Downing Street is engulfed by yet another lockdown party scandal with the Prime Minister at its heart, even his keenest Tory supporters are in despair.