"In full". Bloody hell Boris, even you can't pretend that was the full report
How do you need a report and investigation to "learn" not to have 16 parties while telling the whole country they shouldn't have a party? How can you be PM and still need to learn not to lie at the dispatch box?
Braying buffoons on the backbenchers showing that they really don't give a shit about rule breaking, ethics or what their constituents went through while following the very rules Johnson and his mates broke..
We all know what the issue is. It's Boris bloody Johnson. F**k sake is he actually trying to use Brexit and vaccines to detract from this. It's embarrassing. Oh, and lying about the UK growth rate, again. FFS
Ooh, this is good by Starmer. After Johnson's self aggrandising ego speech, this brings it back to the criminality and the sacrifices which the public made while the PM partied. A marked difference between the two, which just highlights how out of touch Johnson is.
Nice touch quoting Thatcher. That should, probably won't, but should, land with at least some of the Conservative MP's wavering over whether to submit a letter.
Having a prepared answer doesn't work if you don't listen to the speech you are responding to. Johnson is just digging himself further into a hole which this blustering act.
Professionally speaking from a comms perspective this is a massively misjudged line from Johnson to take. He just comes across as being unrepentant and out of step with the public mood.

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