The partygate: I will survive, says Johnson promises team reset

Johnson will recruit more new staff to his Downing Street team, his spokesman said

Boris Johnson sang Gloria Gaynor’s classic disco anthem I will survive, in a bid to reassure his new director of communications that he wasn’t going to be forced out of office.

Guto Harri, who started work Monday after a string of resignations from Johnson’s office last week, also described his new boss as “not a complete clown,” in an interview with Welsh language website golwg360, according to a BBC translation.

Harri told the Welsh website he’d asked Johnson “Are you going to survive, Boris?” and said the premier had started to sing as he used the line from the Gaynor song in