UK PM Johnson To Apologise To Parliament Over Lockdown Party
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Opposition parties have called for PM Johnson to resign, accusing him of misleading parliament
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will apologise to parliament on Tuesday as he faces lawmakers for the first time since he was fined by police for breaking his own COVID-19 lockdown rules, a government official said.
Johnson, who will address parliament at around 1430 GMT, was fined last week by the police for attending a birthday party thrown in his honour in June 2020 when people from different households were not allowed to meet indoors.
Opposition parties have called for Johnson to resign, accusing him of misleading parliament after he told lawmakers last year that all rules were followed in Downing Street - the prime minister's official residence and workplace - during the pandemic.
"When he spoke to parliament he was speaking what he believed to be the truth," Britain's Northern Ireland minister Brandon Lewis told Sky News.
