London: British Prime Minister Boris johnsonemployees of Downing Street as last year Queen Elizabeth mourned her husband, at a time when it was forbidden for people from different households to socialize inside the house.
Johnson is facing the gravest crisis of his premiership following revelations about a series of gatherings in Downing Street during the Covid lockdown, at a time when ordinary people were unable to say farewell in person to relatives who died.
Johnson, who won a landslide election victory in 2019, apologized on Wednesday for a “bring your own wine” gathering at his official residence during Britain’s first coronavirus outbreak. lockdownHe admitted that he participated.
The Telegraph said two other drinking parties were held inside Downing Street on April 16, 2021, when social gatherings were limited indoors and out. The newspaper said Johnson was at his Checkers Country residence that day.
The next day, Queen Elizabeth bid farewell to Philip, 99.
Dressed in a black-and-white cropped black face mask, 95-year-old Elizabeth stood alone, head bowed as her husband of 73 years was lowered into the Royal Vault of St. George’s Chapel.
Such was the joy in Downing Street, the Telegraph said, that employees went to a nearby supermarket to buy a suitcase of wine, used a laptop to play music and a hammock used by the prime minister’s young son broke down. .
Opponents called for Johnson to resign, casting the 57-year-old prime minister as a charlatan who demanded that the British people follow some of the toughest rules in peacetime history while his own staff attended.
A small but growing number in his own Conservative Party have echoed those calls, fearing it will do permanent damage to his electoral prospects.
Johnson has given a variety of explanations about the parties, ranging from denial of any rules being broken, to understanding anger at the apparent hypocrisy at the heart of the British state.
apologies
One of the parties in Downing Street in April 2021 was a leaving event for James Slack, a former director of communications, who said on Friday he would “unreservedly apologize for the anger and hurt”.
Slack said in a statement to PA media that the gathering “should not have happened when it did.”
British police said on Thursday they would not investigate gatherings at Johnson’s residence during the coronavirus lockdown until an internal government investigation found evidence of possible criminal offences.
Asked about reports from the parties the day before Philip’s funeral, Security Minister Damien Hinds said he was shocked.
“I was shocked to read this,” Hinds told Sky News. We will have to see what happens next in the investigation.
“It was a particularly sad time for our entire country.”
Johnson is facing the gravest crisis of his premiership following revelations about a series of gatherings in Downing Street during the Covid lockdown, at a time when ordinary people were unable to say farewell in person to relatives who died.
Johnson, who won a landslide election victory in 2019, apologized on Wednesday for a “bring your own wine” gathering at his official residence during Britain’s first coronavirus outbreak. lockdownHe admitted that he participated.
The Telegraph said two other drinking parties were held inside Downing Street on April 16, 2021, when social gatherings were limited indoors and out. The newspaper said Johnson was at his Checkers Country residence that day.
The next day, Queen Elizabeth bid farewell to Philip, 99.
Dressed in a black-and-white cropped black face mask, 95-year-old Elizabeth stood alone, head bowed as her husband of 73 years was lowered into the Royal Vault of St. George’s Chapel.
Such was the joy in Downing Street, the Telegraph said, that employees went to a nearby supermarket to buy a suitcase of wine, used a laptop to play music and a hammock used by the prime minister’s young son broke down. .
Opponents called for Johnson to resign, casting the 57-year-old prime minister as a charlatan who demanded that the British people follow some of the toughest rules in peacetime history while his own staff attended.
A small but growing number in his own Conservative Party have echoed those calls, fearing it will do permanent damage to his electoral prospects.
Johnson has given a variety of explanations about the parties, ranging from denial of any rules being broken, to understanding anger at the apparent hypocrisy at the heart of the British state.
apologies
One of the parties in Downing Street in April 2021 was a leaving event for James Slack, a former director of communications, who said on Friday he would “unreservedly apologize for the anger and hurt”.
Slack said in a statement to PA media that the gathering “should not have happened when it did.”
British police said on Thursday they would not investigate gatherings at Johnson’s residence during the coronavirus lockdown until an internal government investigation found evidence of possible criminal offences.
Asked about reports from the parties the day before Philip’s funeral, Security Minister Damien Hinds said he was shocked.
“I was shocked to read this,” Hinds told Sky News. We will have to see what happens next in the investigation.
“It was a particularly sad time for our entire country.”
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