Fuming Dan Walker hit out at Boris Johnson for ‘not knowing the rules’ amid the government’s lockdown party scandal.
The BBC Breakfast host ranted about the prime minister in front of the nation on his BBC morning show – where he joined co-star Sally Nugent on the red sofa.
At one point, he even suggested Boris should get the boot as he asked: “How can that be the man in charge?”
Dan vented his frustration to Armed Forces Minister James Heappey on Wednesday’s Breakfast (January 19).
Dan said: “The vast majority of people are judging him from what they’ve seen in public because that’s the only opportunity they get.
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“Yesterday, they did see him in public. You just said he’s a man with his head in the detail and a man who has his hand on the tiller is the way you were describing him.
“Yesterday, our viewers and many others saw him say that no one warned him that what he saw in May 2020 in Downing Street was against the rules.
“And you’ve just told us he’s the man making the rules and that’s what we see.
He went on: “We see the Prime Minister, the man who has made the rules that all of us have to follow and yet here he is saying that no one explained to him that what he saw in that Downing Street garden was against the rules.
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“How can that be the man in charge?”
The Tory MP replied: “Dan, I completely get your anger, your take on things.
“It’s the same as hundreds of my constituents.
“I worked in Downing Street as the Prime Minister’s Private Secretary I’ve seen the way his days are put together.
“In my previous answer, I said he’s in the detail he needs to be in.
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“No Prime Minister, not Boris nor any other can possibly…”
However, Walker cut off the politician, Dan asked: “Forgive me Mr Heappey the rules that everybody in the country is having to follow are precisely the details he needs to be in when he’s the man standing up at the box that we all saw telling us what to do.”
Defending the Prime Minister, James said: “No Prime Minister can know every single thing that is put into their diary. They do dozens upon dozens of things a day.
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“They bounce from meeting to meeting, they rely entirely on those around them to brief them well for the things they’re going into and to have that back when what goes into the diary in the first place.
“My take as somebody who has worked in Downing Street is that the Prime Minister doesn’t really own his own diary.”
It comes after Boris claimed he did not know the lockdown party at Number 10 was breaking Covid rules as “nobody told me” as he apologised for the event.
The event in question was a drinks party held in the garden of No.10 Downing Street on 20 May – an occasion that Boris himself attended along with other ministers.
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