Will Boris Johnson’s apology be enough to save him?
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🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:08.2 | Today, an admission and an apology of sorts. |
| 0:13.6 | How will Boris Johnson come back from this latest scandal? |
| 0:16.8 | The Guardian |
| 0:26.7 | Jonathan Friedland, can you remember what you were doing on the 20th of May 2020? |
| 0:32.0 | Well, I don't think I'd have been able to identify the exact date until all this story blew up, |
| 0:36.1 | but like a lot of people, I have been looking back scrolling through the photos on the phone, |
| 0:42.2 | and it's jogged memories, or exactly that period, the weather, as we know, was glorious and sunny, |
| 0:48.1 | and I think I like a lot of people around that period. I can't nail it to that day, |
| 0:52.5 | but around that period was taking the first tentative steps out into the open. |
| 0:57.6 | So that was when going into the park and walking with a friend, I remember who it was, |
| 1:03.5 | and keeping deliberately very, you know, vigilantly a distance, because that's how |
| 1:08.8 | where we were of breaking the rules and of risking anything, and it was one other person, |
| 1:14.2 | and it had to be in the park, it couldn't be anywhere else, and that seemed like a big treat. |
| 1:18.5 | Meanwhile, what was happening in Downing Street? |
| 1:21.7 | Well, a rather different picture has emerged of life on May the 20th, 2020 in Downing Street. |
| 1:31.9 | We now know that there was a Garden Party, organized because the weather was so good, |
| 1:38.1 | there were about 100 invitees. The invitation came from the personal private secretary to the |
| 1:45.4 | prime minister, apparently about 40 people showed up of the 100 that were invited. |
| 1:49.6 | The wording is extraordinary. The invitation that went by email and the email was found by ITV |
| 1:56.0 | news just a few days again. It says, after what has been an incredibly busy period, |
| 2:00.4 | we thought it'd be nice to make the most of the lovely weather and have some socially |
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