Boris Johnson was pressed over Partygate and whether he should have apologised(Image: APA/AFP via Getty Images)

BREAKING: Shameless Boris Johnson says he regrets saying sorry over Partygate

The disgraced former PM refused to say whether he wished he hadn't apologised to the Queen over celebrations held on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral

by · The Mirror

Shameless Boris Johnson says he regrets apologising over lockdown parties in Downing Street.

The disgraced former PM refused to say whether he wished he hadn't apologised to the Queen over celebrations held on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral.

His memoir, Unleashed, says he thought he made a "mistake" issuing "pathetic" and "grovelling" apologies over Partygate that he said "made it look as though we were far more culpable than we were".

In an interview with ITV, Mr Johnson was pressed over whether he regrets apologising to the Queen. He said: "I don't discuss my conversations with the Queen." Pressed further, the former prime minister continued: "What I was trying to say there was, I think that the blanket apology - the sort of apology I issued right at the beginning - I think the trouble with it was that afterwards, all the accusations that then rained down on officials who'd been working very hard in Number 10 and elsewhere were thought to be true.

"And by apologising I had sort of inadvertently validated the entire corpus and it wasn't fair on those people."

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