The Daily Star’s take on the story – which it calls a “pants on fire crisis” – portrays Mr Johnson as Pinocchio. The PM says he did not know he had broken lockdown party rules “even though he made the actual rules”, the paper says. “Then his day got even worse,” it adds, citing comments from “brainless” Justice Secretary Dominic Raab and Chancellor Rishi Sunak who did not unequivocally back him.