Johnson, who has appointed a lawyer to work on his responses, is believed to have attended six of the 12 Downing Street parties being probed by Scotland Yard.
But he is expected to use his call logs and his diary to show how he was at three leaving parties for only a brief period of time before carrying on with work, The Times reports.
Will the mendacious BJ slip through the net on “technicalities”…
Boris Johnson will not reveal answers to police partygate questionnaire, Number 10 says
Asked if he’d completed his questionnaire, the PM told reporters in Scotland: “All that process has got to be completed before I can say anything more, but I look forward to telling you a lot more in due course.”
But minutes later Number 10 told journalists that Mr Johnson’s answers would not be made public.
His spokesman said the questionnaire would be answered within seven days of it being received, as required by police, after it was delivered on Friday.
Asked if the responses would be made public, the spokesman said: “No.”
Downing Street staff have been told by the Metropolitan Police not to confer with each other when answering a questionnaire about parties which potentially broke Covid rules and have been warned that, should they do so, it could constitute a “separate offence”.
Just because I read it and thought it was the BBC doing what the BBC does best Omah doesn’t mean I don’t have to comment on it does it? Nothing personal you understand…
The first glimpse of a Partygate questionnaire confirms that Downing Street insiders are being questioned under police caution – and asked if they have a “reasonable excuse” for attending lockdown-busting gatherings.
Boris Johnson has already returned his replies to the Metropolitan police’s questions, and is believed to have argued that he attended social events in No 10 in a work capacity.
A copy of one of the official questionnaires, obtained by ITV, shows it includes the police caution:
“You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you subsequently rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.”
A police officer interrupted a Downing Street Christmas party when revellers accidentally set off an alarm, Scotland Yard has confirmed.
Deputy Met commissioner Sir Stephen House said detectives investigating parties at No 10 are speaking to an officer who witnessed the gathering of around 50 on December 18, 2020
Sir Stephen said: ‘One officer was involved in responding with a civilian custodian, who works for No 10, to a silent alarm we believe had been pressed in error. That officer was spoken to by Sue Gray and will be spoken to by ourselves.’
The revelation led to questions over why the officer did not intervene if they had witnessed a potentially illegal gathering.