Rachel Johnson

In defence of my brother Boris

Rachel Johnson, right, with her brother Boris and his wife Carrie at Tory party conference (Getty images)

As you might have guessed, it hasn’t been the calmest, quietest weeks in the Johnson family, and lots of broadcasters – the BBC among them – have asked me to contribute on events across Westminster, and, of course, the repercussions across the country.

I didn’t see much of the Prime Minister and his family during lockdown, but the times I did see him, he was completely compliant: he dotted every ‘i’, he crossed every ‘t’. If it was ‘rule of six’, there were six. And what I didn’t see were all the things you’ve been reading about. 

If he did go out into the garden – and he’s told us he did – for him, that would have been work

For example, at his birthday, it was me, my three brothers, Carrie and Wilf. That was six people. And I have to tell you something about my brother’s character. You’ve been seeing the front pages which couldn’t have been worse: suitcases of booze going into Downing Street from the Co-op.

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