Business minister Paul Scully defended Mr Johnson's conduct as the prime minister prepared to face a second day of grilling by MPs following his Commons apology after he was fined last week for breaking lockdown rules
The comments come hours before Mr Johnson faces Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons where the topic of partygate is again likely to be seized upon by opposition MPs.
That investigation would focus on whether the prime minister knowingly misled the Commons when he initially claimed that no lockdown rules had been broken over partygate but will require the support of Tory MPs to go ahead.Mr Scully told Sky News that other processes - the Met Police inquiry and civil servant Sue Gray's report - ought to be exhausted"rather than start another strand".
Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner reiterated her anger towards the prime minister and urged Tory MPs to act.She told Sky News:"Nobody is above the law in this country and this prime minister needs to recognise that, his MPs need to reinforce that - because if they don't they undermine our democracy."
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