🔺 EXCLUSIVE: A new poll gives Labour their biggest lead since Dec 2013 as Boris Johnson defies calls for his resignation over lockdown parties in Downing Street
The prime minister apologised to the public for the “rage they feel” over the allegations as he admitted attending an event in the No 10 garden in May 2020.
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