LONDON (Reuters) – Revelations about parties at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s residence and office during the COVID-19 lockdown has damaged public confidence in the government, finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday.
Asked about whether the scandal, which has resulted in a police investigation, had damaged the public’s confidence in the government, Sunak said: “Yes I think it has.”
“I can appreciate people’s frustration and I think it is now the job of all of us in government, all politicians to restore people’s trust,” he told the BBC.
(Reporting by Alistair Smout and Kylie MacLellan, editing by Elizabeth Piper)
