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The key lines from UK foreign secretary Liz Truss on Sky News are that she has reiterated her 100% support for the prime minister, she has said that she herself attended no parties during lockdown, and she also said - albeit with a slight pause - that she had not been invited to any parties during lockdown. She declined, when asked, to call for Labour leader Keir Starmer to also be investigated by police over having a beer in a constituency office.

Beyond that she said I'm not going to prejudice the findings of the Sue Gray report, or indeed, the police investigation" or words to that effect quite a lot. She said:

I believe that he's done a fantastic job as prime minister, whether it's delivering Brexit, delivering the Covid vaccines, the booster programmes. We've now got a much faster growing economy than many of our competitors, thanks to his work, and I believe that's what we should focus on ... I don't think it's helpful to speculate on specific claims or specific accusations about what may or may not have happened.