comes to light another alleged party held in Downing Street during the pandemic. As published this Monday ‘ITV News‘, Boris Johnson would have celebrated his birthday with up to 30 people during the UK’s first lockdown in June 2020, despite indoor gatherings being banned at the time.
According to the aforementioned British chain, the Prime Minister’s wife, Carrie Johnson, organized a surprise for him on the afternoon of June 19, the day Johnson turned 56, when he was returning from an official act.
Up to 30 people would have attended to this event, held in the Cabinet room at Number 10, where there was a snack and the staff sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to the ‘premier’ with a cake. According to Downing Street, quoted by ‘ITV’, some staff members met “briefly” to wish Johnson a happy birthday, who was there for less than 10 minutes.
In addition, the chain reports that on that same day friends of the Prime Minister’s family were received inside their official residence, something that would also violate the rules and that Downing Street denies, ensuring that the prime minister only received a small number of relatives abroad.
If confirmed, this birthday party would join the extensive list of celebrations hosted in Downing Street during the pandemic -since the ‘wine friday‘ to parties celebrated on the eve of the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh-, an issue that has sparked enormous controversy in the UK and endangers the future of the prime minister in charge.
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