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Email shows Boris Johnson aide invited No 10 staff to lockdown 'BYOB' party
Source: The Guardian
Boris Johnson was tonight accused of an utterly outrageous breach of lockdown rules as a leaked email showed one of his top officials invited more than 100 Downing Street staff to a bring your own booze party during the first lockdown.
The prime minister is believed to have attended the No 10 garden party on 20 May 2020 along with his wife after it was advertised by his principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds.
Hi all, after what has been an incredibly busy period we thought it would be nice to make the most of the lovely weather and have some socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening. Please join us from 6pm and bring your own booze! the email seen by ITV News said.
It invited just over 100 employees to the gathering at a time when social mixing was banned except with one other person from another household outdoors in a public place.
The prime minister is believed to have attended the No 10 garden party on 20 May 2020 along with his wife after it was advertised by his principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds.
Hi all, after what has been an incredibly busy period we thought it would be nice to make the most of the lovely weather and have some socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening. Please join us from 6pm and bring your own booze! the email seen by ITV News said.
It invited just over 100 employees to the gathering at a time when social mixing was banned except with one other person from another household outdoors in a public place.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/10/email-shows-boris-johnsons-official-invited-no-10-staff-to-lockdown-byob-party
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Email shows Boris Johnson aide invited No 10 staff to lockdown 'BYOB' party (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jan 2022
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jimfields33
(15,952 posts)1. Wow. And to think they could have just come to Florida and party Harty
like our politicians do.
Torchlight
(3,361 posts)2. A successful conspiracy of fools.
I guess they had fun, and got away with it for quite some time.
Aussie105
(5,434 posts)3. BYOB . . .bringing the virus and spreading it is optional.
Rules for the plebs, but optional for them!
Socially distancing 100 employees? Must have been a big space they were in!
"Please join us from 6pm and bring your own booze!
And no one said . . .just wait-a-minit, that ain't right?
orwell
(7,775 posts)4. I guess it was BYOV!
Bring your own virus...
or
Bring your own variant...
Tories are just like RePubiCons...rules only apply to "the little people."