United Kingdom This was the 'botellón' in Downing Street
Covid Boris Johnson admits he was at a party during confinement and apologizes
Members of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet held two farewell parties, which lasted
until dawn,
at Downing Street on April 16, 2021, despite restrictions in place at the time.
There is also the circumstance that the United Kingdom was then in national mourning for the death, a week earlier, of the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen
Elizabeth II, who had to sit alone at her funeral
due to social distance. required by anticovid rules.
The newspaper "The Daily Telegraph" - traditionally the closest to Johnson, who worked for him for a long time - published this Thursday the exclusive of the celebration of the two farewell parties, which adds even more pressure on a prime minister besieged by the revelations about alleged infractions at Downing Street.
On that date, a Friday, the country was in the second phase of the de-escalation, which
prohibited socializing indoors
and limited outdoor gatherings to six people.
This did not prevent, according to the newspaper, that
some 30 people participated in two farewell parties
that same night, in which, according to witnesses, alcohol was consumed and there were dances and music until the wee hours of the morning.
The celebrations
honored James Slack,
Johnson's former director of communications, who left to take up the post of deputy editor at the tabloid newspaper "The Sun", and one of the personal photographers of the head of government.
That day, according to the "Telegraph",
the prime minister was not at his official residence.
Senior official
Sue Gray
is investigating the celebration of celebrations and other possible violations of the regulations against covid-19 in the Johnson Executive.
The opposition has openly called for
the prime minister's resignation
, to which some voices from his own Conservative Party have also joined, such as the "tory" leader in Scotland,
Douglas Ross.
Johnson apologized last Wednesday in Parliament for his participation in a party in May 2020 in Downing Street.
However, he tried to justify it by assuring that he thought it was
a work meeting and that he did not spend more than 25 minutes in the garden
where the celebration took place, which had been called by his personal secretary.
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