Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle chose not to rebuke Sir Keir Starmer after Conservative MPs reacted furiously to the Leader of the Oppositions remarks during a tense Prime Minister's Questions. The Labour leader remarked public thinks Boris Johnson is “lying through his teeth” after confronting Boris Johnson over the evidence of lockdown-breaching Whitehall parties.

       The Leader of the Opposition told MPs: "This just isn't working, Prime Minister."

       He said: "Everyone can see what happened, it started with reports of boozy parties in Downing Street during lockdown. The Prime Minister pretended that he had been assured there were no parties, how that fits with his defence now I do not know.

       "Then the video landed, blowing the Prime Minister's first defence out of the water, so then he pretended ... he was sickened and furious about the parties, now it turns out he was at the parties all along. Can't the Prime Minister see why the British public think he's lying through his teeth?"

       Amid uproar from the Tory benches, the speaker judged the comments to not breach parliamentary rules.

       Under long-standing Parliamentary protocols, MPs are not meant to accuse each other of lying in the chamber.

       The Speaker ruled: "It was what the public thinks not what the member is saying."

       Mr Johnson replied: "It's up to (him) to choose how he conducts himself in this place ... what he said is wrong in several key respects, but that does not detract from the basic point that I want to make today, which is that I accept that we should have done things differently on that evening.

       "As I said to the House, I believe that the events in question were within the guidance and were within the rules, and that was certainly the assumption on which I operated ... He should wait before he jumps to conclusions, a lawyer should respect the inquiry, I hope that he will wait until the facts are established and brought to this House."

       Sir Keir went on to describe the Prime Minister as a "man without shame."

       The Labour leader highlighted the case of Hannah Brady, whose father Shaun died aged 55 after contracting Covid.

       He told MPs: "Her father died just days before the drinks trolley was being wheeled through Downing Street and last year Hannah met the Prime Minister in the Downing Street garden. She looked the Prime Minister in the eye and told him of her loss.

       "The Prime Minister told Hannah he had done everything he could to protect her dad. Looking back, what Hannah told me last night was this - she realises the Prime Minister had partied in that same garden the very day her dad's death certificate was signed.

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       "What Hannah wants to know is this: does the Prime Minister understand why it makes her feel sick to think about the way he's behaved?"

       Mr Johnson replied: "I sympathise deeply with Hannah, with people who have suffered up and down this country during the pandemic, and I repeat that I wish things had been done differently on that evening.

       "I repeat my apology for all the misjudgments that may have been made, that were made on my watch in No 10 and across the Government.

       "I want to reassure the people of this country, including Hannah and her family, that we have been working to do everything we can to protect her and her family."