Two Downing Street parties held evening before Prince Philip’s funeral – reports

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About 30 people said to have been at social events night before the Queen mourned her husband alone

in the No 10 garden in May 2020, during the first Covid lockdown.

The leading Brexiter, who campaigned alongside Johnson during the referendum in 2016, told the Telegraph there was a “moral vacuum at the heart of our government”. James Slack, who had been the prime minister’s official spokesman, ‘gave a farewell speech’ at one of the events, said to be his leaving party.One of the events last April marked the departure from government of James Slack, who was the prime minister’s official spokesperson under both Theresa May and Johnson, before becoming Johnson’s director of communications, according to the Telegraph. He is now deputy editor of the Sun.

Both groups reportedly moved outside around midnight, with drinking carrying on into the early hours of the morning. While in the garden one attender broke a swing belonging to Johnson’s infant son, Wilfred, a witness told the paper.

 

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Well that’s Ok, Two Downing Street is, what, four houses down from the PM’s residence, surely that’s socially distanced enough?

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