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Just how many lockdown parties would it take for Boris Johnson to resign?

I'm Heather Stewart, political editor of The Guardian, and this is Politics Weekly.

Mr Speaker, I want to apologise.

Boris Johnson today apologised for attending a bring your own booze party

held in Downing Street in May 2020 at a time when the British public were only allowed to meet

one other person outside. Is he now going to do the decent thing and resign?

Despite calls for his resignation, the Prime Minister is hiding behind senior civil servants

Sue Gray, who's investigating a string of dodgy gatherings in Downing Street. But his own MPs

had made clear to him they expected answers at today's Prime Minister's questions.

So what did they make of it? And is Johnson's very future as Prime Minister now hanging in the balance?

And to add to the government's problems, a cost of living crisis is heading our way,

with 2022 being nicknamed The Year of the Squeeze. But where is the Chancellor

as all of this unfolds? That's all in this week's Politics Weekly.

The scandals surrounding Downing Street simply won't go away. As an email leaked to ITV News this week,

revealed that Downing Street staff had been invited to a socially distanced party by Johnson's

Principal Private Secretary Martin Reynolds during the first lockdown in 2020.

I've just watched a highly anticipated Prime Minister's questions and wanted to talk to Guardian

Columnist Gabby Hensliff about what she thinks of this mess. Gabby, it's lovely to have you,

what were you doing at about the time of this party, not party in May 2020? I imagine not

wandering out into your garden and accidentally involving yourself in a drink stew.

I was doing basically nothing because nothing was basically what you were allowed to do,

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