LONDON, 14 February 2022, (TON): A government minister said “British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not be distracted from focusing on tensions between Ukraine and Russia by receipt of a police questionnaire about lockdown parties at his Downing Street office.”

The Metropolitan Police are contacting more than 50 people believed to have attended the parties to explain their involvement.

On Friday, Johnson’s spokesperson confirmed he had received a questionnaire and would respond as required.

junior defence minister James Heappey told media “I’ve every confidence that the prime minister will fill out this questionnaire and return it to the Metropolitan Police service as he must.”

Heappey said “but I don’t think for a second it will distract him from leading the international response at a time of acute geopolitical crisis.”

He said “he will be reading some really very eye-opening intelligence briefs all day, every day. He and the government are in now a very regular routine of National Security Council meetings and COBRA meetings.”