In November 2020, although the UK was experiencing a second lockdown, two meetings were held in Downing Street. The first was a party with collaborators at Johnson’s official residence. The leader assures that “the rules were complied with at all times.”
The second was on November 27. It was a farewell party for a Downing Street employee, during which the prime minister made a speech, according to witnesses quoted by the press. The meeting would have gathered about 50 people in a room.
During December 2020, despite the fact that the country was going through one of the worst contagion peaks thanks to the alpha variant of Covid, parties were held at the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Transport, the headquarters of the Conservative party – to which it belongs Johnson—and, of course, Downing Street.
The “inappropriate” parties continued in 2021. Staff at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office had farewell drinks in honor of two workers in full lockdown and on the eve of Prince Philip’s funeral, he said on Thursday. The Telegraph.
Advisers and officials met in two separate events after work on April 16, 2021, to fire communications director James Slack and a personal photographer for the Conservative prime minister, the newspaper noted.