Partygate: Photos pop up of Johnson toasting during lockdown

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Broadcaster ITV has released four photographs showing Prime Minister Boris Johnson toasting with a glass in his hand and eight people around him during a party held in Downing Street on November 13, 2020, while the UK lockdown was in effect to limit circulation. of Covid. New images emerge regarding the Partygate scandal as the full independent report prepared by Senior Official Sue Gray is awaited for days after the closure of the police investigation and the many fines imposed by Scotland Yard, including that to the prime minister. Tory.
The event in question, according to ITV, is the farewell party for the government’s director of communications, former journalist Lee Cain, who resigned at the time. A spokeswoman for Downing Street responded to the revelations of the British broadcaster, according to which Scotland Yard has already had access to all the relevant information to carry out its investigation, including photos, and that when the Gray report is published, the premier will report to Parliament. The prime minister, however, had already been asked last December in the House of Commons if there had been a party on the date in question and he had replied: “Whatever happened, the rules were respected.”
The pressure on the conservative government with respect to the Partygate is thus renewed, which also covered the accusations on a “secret” meeting between Johnson and Gray to talk about the report being published. Downing Street eventually had to admit that the # 10 officials had originally asked for a confrontation between the two, noting however that the meeting was in no way aimed at compromising the independent nature of Gray’s business.

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