According to a recently leaked e-mail, during the dreary, death-filled lockdowns of the first year of COVID, Downing Street was quietly serving as an unlikely speakeasy for the highly placed.
of being quizzed on TV by the real press when she was reassigned to a different position in government, resigned not long after a video of the Q. & A. practice session emerged.) After the Stratton video was made public in early December, the Prime Minister appeared in the House of Commons with a brazen strategy for deflecting blame: he understood people’s fury, he said, because he, too, was “furious to see that clip.
It soon became clear, however, that the alleged partying was not merely a festive-season lapse on the part of staffers, of whose shenanigans the Prime Minister—sequestered in his upper-story flat—was unaware. There were shenanigans all the way down. A few days after the video was leaked, thepublished a photo dating from May 15, 2020—during the U.K.
When Johnson was confronted on Monday by a reporter for the BBC with the leak of the party-invitation e-mail, he declined to give comment. “All that, is subject for an investigation by Sue Gray,” he said twice, with a smirk.
with the Cabinet Office about Monday’s revelations. For Johnson, it’s going to be an even longer January than usual.
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