Under fire, UK PM apologises for staff joking about Christmas lockdown party

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised on Wednesday after a video surfaced showing his staff laughing and joking about a party in Downing Street during a Christmas COVID-19 lockdown last year when such festivities were banned.

After days of denials, the video aired by ITV, Allegra Stratton, who was then Johnson's press secretary, was shown at a 2020 Downing Street rehearsal for a daily briefing laughing and joking about a reported gathering.

At the time of the Downing Street gathering, tens of millions of people across Britain were banned from meeting close family and friends for a traditional Christmas celebration - or even from bidding farewell to dying relatives. "The prime minister has been caught red-handed," Starmer said in an exchange with Johnson on the floor of the House of Commons.

 

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