Harrogate family will "never forgive" Boris Johnson for breaking lockdown rules
The former Prime Minister has been quizzed by MPs over whether he misled parliament
A Harrogate woman who wasn't even allowed to wave through the window of her Mums care home in Covid - says she'll never forgive Boris Johnson for breaking lockdown rules.
The former Prime Minister's facing questions from a committee of MPs investigating whether he's guilty of contempt of Parliament.
Anna McIntee says he still hasn't really acknowledged the pain party-gate has caused families like hers: "It was one of the hardest points of our lives doing that, and knowing that Boris and his colleagues were all together, just ignoring his own rules, it's really frustrating and just really sad."
She says hearing him trying to justify his response has been very triggering: "He's not acknowledged what has actually happened to the families, the suffering that we have actually been through, I didn't touch my Mum for 13 months, she went into a care home just before we went into lock down."
Mr Johnson, as he did in his written evidence published on Tuesday, said it was difficult to social distance in No 10 as it is a "cramped, narrow 18th Century town house" and they had no choice but to meet "day in, day out, seven days a week in an unrelenting battle against COVID".
"I will believe till the day I die that it was my job to thank staff for what they had done, especially during a crisis like COVID, which kept coming back, which seemed to have no end," he said.
He said the most important point was that the police, in their inquiry, agreed his attendance at the events was not against the rules.