Members of the British Prime Minister’s Cabinet, Boris Johnson, celebrated two farewell parties, which lasted until dawn, in the dependencies of Downing Street on April 16, 2021, despite the restrictions in force at that time.
It so happens, moreover, that the United Kingdom was then in national mourning for the deathand, a week before, of the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of the queen Isabel II, who had to sit alone at her funeral due to the social distance required by anti-COVID rules.
The newspaper ‘The Daily Telegraph‘ -traditionally the closest to Johnson, who worked for him for a long time- published this Thursday the exclusive of the celebration of the two farewell parties, which also adds more pressure on a beleaguered prime minister for the revelations about alleged infractions at Downing Street.
On that date, a Friday, the country was in the second phase of the de-escalation, which banned indoor socializing and limited outdoor gatherings to six people. This did not prevent, according to the newspaper, that some 30 people will participate in two farewell parties that same night, in which, according to witnesses, he consumed alcohol and there was dances Y music until late hours am.
The celebrations paid tribute to James Slack, Johnson’s former director of communications, who left to take up the position of deputy director of the tabloid newspaper ‘The Sun’, and one of the personal photographers of the head of government.
That day, according to the ‘Telegraph’, the prime minister was not at his official residence. Senior official Sue Gray is investigating the celebration of celebrations and other possible violations of the regulations against COVIDd-19 in the Johnson Executive.
The opposition has openly called for the prime minister’s resignation, to which some voices from his own Conservative Party have also joined, such as the “tory” leader in Scotland, Douglas Ross.
Johnson apologized last Wednesday in Parliament for his participation in a party in May 2020 in Downing Street. However, he tried to justify it by assuring that he thought it was a work meeting and that he did not spend more than 25 minutes in the garden where the celebration took place, which had been called by his personal secretary.
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