Culture secretary leaps to defence of Boris Johnson in series of bizarre, sometimes awkward interviews
As the weeks wear on following No 10’s “partygate” scandal and the number of Conservative MPs urging Boris Johnson to go continues to climb, one person has emerged as the prime minister’s most loyal defender.
Nadine Dorries, undeterred by two new calls for Johnson to resign and fresh reports that police have a photograph of the PM holding a can of Estrella at his lockdown birthday party, leapt to his defence on Saturday in a series of bizarre interviews.