UK PM Johnson had a birthday party during lockdown: Report

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LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a birthday party during the first COVID-19 lockdown in June 2020 when social gatherings indoors were banned, ITV News reported on Monday (Jan 24). The revelation ratchets up the pressure on Johnson over a series of gatherings at his 10 Downin

The broadcaster said one of the attendees was interior designer Lulu Lytle, who was renovating Johnson's flat in the building.

ITV also said it also understood that family friends were hosted in the prime minister's residence on the previous evening."This is totally untrue," a spokesperson told ITV."In line with the rules at the time, the prime minister hosted a small number of family members outside that evening."Senior bureaucrat Sue Gray has been investigating the gatherings and is expected to publish a report later this week.

Johnson has given a variety of explanations about previously reported parties: first he said no rules had been broken but then he apologies to the British people for the apparent hypocrisy of such gatherings. Opposition leader Keir Starmer said of the birthday gathering:"This is yet more evidence that we have got a prime minister who believes that the rules that he made don't apply to him."

"We cannot afford to go on with this chaotic, rudderless government. The prime minister is a national distraction and he’s got to go."

 

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