Stanley Johnson says Greece visit is essential to 'Covid-proof' villa

Boris Johnson has refused to criticise his father over trip to holiday home during lockdown

The prime minister's father, Stanley Johnson, has defended travelling to his villa in Greece amid growing condemnation by saying that he was making the property Covid-proof".

Government guidelines state that British nationals should avoid all but essential travel, but his son Boris has refused to criticise the trip and, on Friday, suggested the media should raise the issue directly with his father.