Focus on PM’s ‘Partygate’ Scandal ‘Not Helping Anyone’: UK Minister

Focus on PM’s ‘Partygate’ Scandal ‘Not Helping Anyone’: UK Minister
Britain's Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng arrives at 10 Downing Street in central London on Feb. 1, 2022. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images
Alexander Zhang
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The ongoing focus on the alleged lockdown breaches in Downing Street is “not helping anyone” at a time when the UK government is faced with serious issues both at home and abroad, a British minister has said.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing calls to resign, from both opposition parties and his own MPs, following a series of damaging allegations of parties and other gatherings held in his official residence at Number 10 Downing Street and other government departments in Whitehall at the height of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, in violation of lockdown rules written by the government.