As you might have guessed, it hasn’t been the calmest, quietest weeks in the Johnson family, and lots of broadcasters – the BBC among them – have asked me to contribute on events across Westminster, and, of course, the repercussions across the country.
I didn’t see much of the Prime Minister and his family during lockdown, but the times I did see him, he was completely compliant: he dotted every ‘i’, he crossed every ‘t’. If it was ‘rule of six’, there were six. And what I didn’t see were all the things you’ve been reading about.
If he did go out into the garden – and he’s told us he did – for him, that would have been work
For example, at his birthday, it was me, my three brothers, Carrie and Wilf. That was six people. And I have to tell you something about my brother’s character. You’ve been seeing the front pages which couldn’t have been worse: suitcases of booze going into Downing Street from the Co-op.
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