‘Reasonable’ to suggest PM may have broken code over Partygate, says ethics adviser

Lord Geidt implies to Commons committee he did not have power to investigate Boris Johnson's potential breach of lockdown rules

Boris Johnson's ethics adviser has said it was reasonable" to suggest the prime minister may have breached the ministerial code when he was fined during the Partygate scandal.

Giving evidence to MPs, Christopher Geidt suggested he did not have the power to investigate Johnson's potential breach linked to lockdown parties and that he had not requested an investigation, but instead had required a statement from the prime minister - who cleared himself of any breach.