and i think the position of the prime minister is very vulnerable. do you think the prime minister thinks he s done anything wrong? well, you never know quite with boris. he doesn t like rules. he has a long track record of circling around them rather than meeting rules. so who knows what he thinks deep down whether he did anything wrong. i cannot believe he is convinced by the argument he put yesterday that this was a work meeting when the whole country thinks it clearly was a social event and that was in breach of the regulations. the problem for the prime minister is that he seems to have breached the ministerial code,
for me to ask a nurse who was absolutely brilliant at the time, she fully understood, to hold his hand. and then we had the funeral on the 2nd of may and there was only ten of us in attendance. we stop to the rules again. and now to learn and to hear what has come out two weeks later more or less they are having parties with alcohol and food we stuck to the rules. they were not socially distancing. we all followed the rules. for me, yesterday i was disgusted, i was sad, emotional, hurt, there was all kinds of mixed emotions going through me yesterday when i seen on the tv and i had to be honest, he didn t even once say properly i m sorry. he didn t hold his hands up and say, look, i m sorry, you
in the commons yesterday, borisjohnson did finally admit he had been at a party but said his garden was a workspace. technically, it was within the rules. i believed implicitly that this was a work event. many watching including bereaved families didn t believe him. it wasn t an apology, he didn t so sorry, he basically gas lit the entire nation in saying the event that was illegal at the time was a work event and not a party. we all know that s not true. one by one, his cabinet have come forward to back him. the foreign secretary late in the evening said she was behind him 100%, and the chancellor, too a bit lukewarm requested patience while an inquiry is under way. a handful of his own mps have lost patience, publicly calling on him to go.
trying to curb the spread of the 0micron variant. from tomorrow those rules will no longer apply if you are fully vaccinated, if you are not then they will still apply. when the rules were tightened in december that came just rules were tightened in december that camejust in rules were tightened in december that came just in time to affect the travel plans of many thousands of people might have been travelling for christmas, for work or to see friends and family they hadn t seen for a very long time so it affected a lot of people and the travel industry. travel and tourism businesses were very upset about it. it was very bad timing for them just when i had been some optimism in the air. so today, a positive reaction from the likes of eurostar, brittany ferries, some airlines have already reported a spike in airlines, for example ski holidays which are still very big at this time of year. so they are saying it is finally a bit
half hearted apology borisjohnson gave at pmqs yesterday was devoid of any empathy, and that is shameful. in half an hour or so we are going to talk to somebody who did break the rules and says they absolutely did the wrong thing, they had friends round for drinks in the garden and they were fined 100 quid and that person now wants a refund, but that s in about half an hour. in the meantime, here is more of the day s news with martine croxall. we have breaking news from the clothing retailer next, have who cut sick pay for unvaccinated staff have to self isolated because of exposure to self isolated because of exposure to covid, and in some cases for workers who also test positive. ikea did something similar recently as well, didn t they? next also acknowledging that it is an emotive topic but saying they have to balance staff and shareholder needs. employers are facing mass absences of course because of the 0micron variant of covid. it is unclear when next made the change but it seems