Boris Johnson apologizes over lockdown party. May force to resigned after it.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologised for attending a “bring your own booze” party during the first coronavirus lockdown.

He told MPs the event in the Downing Street garden was “technically within the rules” but he should have realised how it would look to the public.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the PM must now quit over what he called his “ridiculous” lies and excuses.

Mr Johnson is also under pressure from his own MPs over the May 2020 party.

After Prime Minister’s Questions, he toured the Commons tea rooms, where MPs gather, to shore up support among his backbenchers.

If 54 of them send letters to the 1922 committee – the influential backbench group which runs Tory leadership contests – it will trigger a challenge.

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, an MP and MSP, said he would be writing to the committee because he believed the PM’s position was “no longer tenable”.

“He is the prime minister, it is his government that put these rules in place, and he has to be held to account for his actions,” said Mr Ross.