Cabinet minister compared the partygate scandal to the controversy over the war in Iraq and the claims of Tony Blair over weapon of mass destruction.
Simon Hart secretary of state for Wales said there was a difference between “misrepresentation and deliberate misrepresentation” when he defended Boris Johnson. against accusations that he could mislead parliament when he insisted that Covid rules weren’t broken in Downing Street during lockdown.
Hart drew parallels with Blair insisted that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction.
“I know it always upsets everyone,” he said. “There is a difference between misrepresentation and deliberate misrepresentation.
“We heard everything of that with Tony Blair and the Iraq War, if you remember, guns of mass destruction? And
