Boris Johnson’s latest headache: allegations of a “bring your own booze” event outside Downing Street residence during a 2020 Covid-19 lockdown
This week an email surfaced from a senior adviser to Mr. Johnson inviting around 100 people to a “bring your own booze” event at the garden outside the prime minister’s Downing Street residence in May 2020. At the time, English rules permitted meeting with only one other person outdoors.
Martin Reynolds, background in glasses, principal private secretary to U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson , wrote an email inviting Downing Street staffers to ‘socially distanced drinks’ during a 2020 lockdown.Under Conservative Party rules, 55 of the party’s lawmakers must submit letters to a special committee to trigger a confidence vote in their leader. The prime minister “is going nowhere,” Conservative minister Michael Ellis told the House of Commons on Tuesday.
The government’s approval ratings have dropped to 23%, according to a tracker poll published on Monday by YouGov, its lowest level since the start of the pandemic. Growing concerns about the economy amid rising taxes, inflation and worries about increasing energy prices are also taking their toll. Allegations of rule-busting parties are denting the government’s ability to convince the public that all will be well, Mr. Curtis said.
Jim Shannon, a Democratic Unionist Party lawmaker from Northern Ireland, wept as he spoke of how his mother-in-law died alone of Covid-19 in 2020 and asked for a full, transparent investigation into the gatherings.
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