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10.01.2022 - 22:43 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Boris Johnson is facing fresh allegations that he and dozens of Downing Street staff broke lockdown rules last May with a boozy party in the Number 10 garden during the height of the nationwide lockdown.
According to a leaked e-mail obtained by ITV News, the Prime Minister’s top civil service aide told over a hundred employees in No 10 to a party to “make the most of the lovely weather”.
The e-mail sent by the Prime Minister’s Principal Private Secretary Martin Reynolds, a senior No 10 civil servant in Johnson's private office, stated: “Please join us from 6pm and bring your own booze!”
It was sent on May 20, 2020, while the rest of the country was banned from meeting more than one other person outdoors.
Reynolds' chummy message stated: “Hi all, After what has been an incredibly busy period it would be nice to make the most of the lovely weather and have some socially distanced drinks in the No10 garden this evening.”
It is reported the Prime Minister and his wife Carrie Johnson and around 40 staff gathered in the garden that evening, eating picnic food and drinking.
The party is separate from another gathering photographed on May 15 which showed Johnson and his wife sitting with No 10 staff including Martin Reynolds on the Downing Street garden terrace with a bottle of wine and cheese.
Downing Street has insisted that the photograph showed a work meeting on May 15.
The May 20 party was first alluded to in a blog by the Prime Minister’s former adviser and covid-rule breaker turned sworn enemy Dominic Cummings.
Less than an hour before the drinks, the then Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden reminded the rest of the country at the daily press conference that they must only meet in pairs outdoors.
On the 20th May he said: “You can
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