A grieving wife whose husband died with Covid just three weeks after they got married has slammed Prime Minister Boris Johnson as a "liar and a charlatan" - as he insisted he did not know he was breaking his own coronavirus rules and offered a “wholehearted apology” to MPs after being fined by police.

The Prime Minister made his apology in the Commons on Tuesday, saying he was speaking in “all humility” by acknowledging the fine issued over the gathering in No 10 for his birthday in June 2020.

Fran Hall, whose husband Steve Mead died with Covid-19 three weeks after the couple married in 2020, said Mr Johnson is “a man without shame, without morals and without honour”.

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“The endless apologies that the Prime Minister gave to the house when he finally stood up half an hour late to make his statement mean nothing to me – nor do they mean anything to him,” Ms Hall, 61, said.

“He is a liar whose lies slip easily from his mouth. He will never resign. We depend completely on the backbench Tory MPs to finally decide that he is a liability rather than a leader.

“Until then, we have a liar and a charlatan debasing the office of Prime Minister.”

Ms Hall’s husband was a retired police officer whom she described as a “an honourable, decent man, who believed in justice”.

“And now he is dead, while this lying man stands without shame at the despatch box refusing to do the right thing and resign,” she said.

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“Yesterday was 18 months of living without Steve.

“I have the huge misfortune to be a citizen of a country where all decency is ebbing away, and my grief and the grief of hundreds of thousands of others is disregarded and ignored by the man paying lip service to honour. I despair.”

The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, of which Ms Hall is a member, said Boris Johnson will need to leave office before grieving families “move on from partygate”.

Safiah Ngah, spokeswoman and group member, lost her father Zahari Ngah, 68, to coronavirus in February 2021.

She said: “Today’s apology from the Prime Minister was the words of someone who is sorry they’ve been caught, not someone who regrets the harm they’ve done.

“There are already over 50 partygate fines issued aside from his own, and many more parties to be investigated, including in his own flat.

“His claim that he didn’t realise rules were being broken is just laughable, and shows he still takes us for idiots.”

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She added: “Backbench Tory MPs might want us to move on from partygate, but first they’ll need to move Johnson on from his office.”

MPs will get the chance to vote on whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament over his assurances that Covid rules were followed in Downing Street, the Commons Speaker announced on Tuesday.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he had approved an application from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and other opposition MPs allowing them to table a motion for debate on Thursday.