• 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.

Conforms to The Trust Project criteria

Know more

  • Coronavirus

  • Philip of Edinburgh

  • United Kingdom

  • Boris Johnson

  • covid 19

The most shocking images that 2021 leaves us in the world

United KingdomThe Labor Party takes off from the hand of Barack Obama

CoronavirusUnited Kingdom sees possible reaching two million cases of coronavirus a day

See links of interest

  • Last News

  • Translator

  • Work calendar 2022

  • how to

  • Check Christmas Lottery

  • Home THE WORLD today

  • Check Child's Lottery

  • Coronavirus

  • Spain - Czech Republic, live

  • Atlético-Athletic: the Super Cup, live

  • Barca - Anadolu Efes Istanbul