Boris Johnson attended leaving do during strict January lockdown

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

Boris Johnson attended a prosecco-fuelled leaving do for a No 10 aide during the strict post-Christmas lockdown, which is now under police investigation, the Guardian has learned.

Sue Gray’s investigation into lockdown parties this week revealed several events that had not previously been publicised, including a gathering on 14 January 2021 “on the departure of two No 10 private secretaries”. But the redacted report revealed no further details.

Sources said the event was held in Downing Street in part as a leaving do for a senior policy adviser who is now a top civil servant working in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

Prosecco is alleged to have been drunk by some staff, with Johnson understood to have given a speech thanking the official for their work and staying for around five minutes.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/01/boris-johnson-attended-leaving-do-during-strict-january-lockdown

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Nothing worse than 1) being caught doing something wrong, 2) apologizing for it and 3) THEN being caught doing something else wrong.

[DavidDvorkin]

1. How much more will be revealed?

How much more will it take?

[ananda]

3. The Tories are discombobulated about getting him out.

It's nuts.

[orwell]

2. Fight for your Right...

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[Evolve Dammit]

4. Drumpf Junior. "Hey it works for the orange bloke." Just bloody lie, lie, lie.

[tishaLA]

5. I've been listening to UK talk radio the past couple weeks

(LBC) because American politics is too depressing for me at the moment and somehow I find solace in the misery the UK's going through because the whole damned world has gone insane.

I can't see how he survives all of this, but then again I can't see him being tossed aside because the Tories don't have anyone else and BoJo seems to have a cult of personality that's not nearly as strong as TFG, but is nonetheless willing to forgive him virtually any transgression. I heard interviews this morning in a former Labour stronghold that switched Tory in 2019 and people were minimizing all of this. I'll never get it when they couldn't even get together in anything other than small groups for funerals and their beloved queen had to sit alone as she buried her husband, the the whole world has gone insane, so....

[Gore1FL]

6. I've read the first sentence like six times.

I have decided I am unable to interpret the English language at this time. I seem to remember less verbs.

[Grokenstein]

7. I...I *think* "leaving do" means "farewell party."