Reuters-YonhapPrime Minister Boris Johnson apologized Wednesday for attending a garden party during Britain's first coronavirus lockdown, but brushed aside demands that he resign for breaching the rules his own government had imposed on the nation. ''I want to apologize,'' Johnson told lawmakers during his weekly Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons. Protestors hold placards in Parliament Square as Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session in parliament in London, Jan. 12. Opposition Labor Party leader Keir Starmer said the British public thought Johnson was ''lying through his teeth.'' Under party rules, such a vote can happen if 15 percent of Conservative lawmakers demand it.

Source: The Times January 13, 2022 03:11 UTC