The Prime Minister has been attending the annual Munich Security Conference, where the prospective Russian invasion of Ukraine is very much at the top of the agenda. The BBC’s Sophie Raworth caught up with Boris Johnson yesterday, following a speech he made warning of the disaster that war would bring. Johnson said in the interview that he believed that Vladimir Putin was ready to orchestrate such a crisis at any moment:
‘It is important that people should feel confident again’
Tomorrow, the government is expected to announce its plans to remove all Covid restrictions for England. Raworth asked if this would erode the government’s ability to act decisively if complications reared their head again in the future:
‘Not a jot I can say’ over partygate
Unsurprisingly, one of the issues bought up in the interview was the police investigation into partygate and the questionnaire that the Prime Minister has filled out on the matter.
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