Boris Johnson privately joking about unsocially distanced parties, shock inside Number 10 when he denied all knowledge of them in public, and Downing St staff shredding evidence.

Those are just a few of the fresh revelations aired in a new ITV News podcast, Partygate: The Inside Story, that lifts the lid even further on one of our era's biggest scandals. So why does it all still matter?

UK Editor Paul Brand tells Deputy Political Editor Anushka Asthana what you need to know...

You can hear the full series on the ITV News website: https://www.itv.com/news/2023-01-11/partygate-the-inside-story-reveals-more-on-downing-streets-notorious-parties

On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/partygate-the-inside-story/id1663472746

On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7ysTc3gt00L0hcb6yY7O2W

And on every other leading podcast platform.