closest adviser that he mislead parliament, boris johnson s categorically denied he was warned about parties at his home. in a moment we ll speak to a former conservative party press chief about the pm s position, but first here s our deputy political editor vicki young with the day s events. prime ministers are surrounded by people offering advice. but in the end, they have to use their own judgment. borisjohnson has admitted joining colleagues for drinks in the garden when the country was locked down, something he now regrets. i carry full responsibility for what took place, but nobody told me, i m absolutely categorical about it, nobody said to me this is an event that is against the rules. and what about staff partying into the early hours the night before prince philip s funeral? was having to apologise to the queen about those parties the night before
version is the controversy over this controversial bill will continue in the government has i m joined by giles kenningham who s a former conservative party press chief, former number ten spokesman and former head of press at number of press at number ten, all between 2013 and 2016. borisjohnson was over
this evening, the prime minister was spotted returning to the commons. just six conservative mps have publicly expressed no confidence in him, but that certainly doesn t tell the whole story. as we mentioned, there s a growing amount of conservative mps expressing no confidence in the prime minister and the first editions of wednesday s newspapers are reporting that as many as 20 will submit letters against him. this is the front page of the daily telegraph saying the government plan to scrap covid restrictions known as plan b as the prime minister faces a rebel plot. i m joined now by former conservative party press chief, giles kenningham, who now heads up the public affairs consultancy trafalgar strategy. great trafalgar strategy. to have you on the programme. great to have you on the programme. in the first instance, i want to ask you how
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejournalist & times radio presenterjenny kleeman and giles kenningham political commentator & former conservative party press chief. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the independent s front page story is prince andrew settling his case with virgina giuffre the yorkshire post says the amount prince andrew has to pay is a substantial sum he s always denied the allegations against. the metro describes how prince andrew has paid up at last the telegraph have the settlement figure prince andrew has agreed as more than £12 million.
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejournalist & times radio presenterjenny kleeman and giles kenningham political commentator & former conservative party press chief. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the daily mail leads on prince andrew s out of court settlement and describes it as a humiliation . the mirror speculates that the queen and prince charles ordered prince andrew to settle out of court. the daily star also focusses on prince andrew settling his case out of court describing him as a royal wrong un . the sun describe prince andrew settling as his final disgrace and they say it will mean a lifetime exile from royal duties . the guardian focuses on what it calls prince andrew avoiding the humiliation of giving evidence by settling out of court. the telegraph speculates on the settlement amount