UK finance minister Sunak: Of course I believe PM on lockdown parties


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LONDON - British finance minister Rishi Sunak said he believed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's explanation over a drinks party in the gardens of Downing Street.

Asked if he believed Johnson's account to parliament of the event, Sunak said: "Of course I do - the Prime Minister set out his understanding of this matter in Parliament last week."

 

(Reporting by William James; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

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