The British Prime Minister acknowledged attending a party in the Gardens of Downing Street in May 2020, while the population was summoned to stay at home. He says he believed “implicitly” that it was a working meeting.
Le Monde with AFP
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson presented Wednesday 12 January his “apologies” in front of Parliament and recognized having made an appearance at a gathering in the Downing Street gardens in confinement.
m. Johnson, however, supported, at the weekly meeting of questions to the government, which he then thought “implicitly” that it was a working meeting. In front of the deputies, he explained that he thought that the event was the event with the health rules then in force, assuming the “responsibility” of the “errors” that were committed.
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The leader of the Labor opposition, Keir Starmer, claimed the resignation of Mr. Johnson, believing that “his defense, which is to say that he did not know he was at a party,” was ” So ridiculous that it is actually insulting for the British public “. “Will he now have the decency to resign?”, Then added Mr. Starmer, accusing the conservative leader of “lying like a teeth harder”.
Since the end of November, 2021, not a week passes without a revelation on holidays that would have taken place in 2020 at 10 Downing Street, the residence and the headquarters of the services of the British Prime Minister, in violation of the health constraints in force. The time.
On January 10, the ITV channel released the invitation email to a “Byob Party” (for Bring Your Own Bottle, “Bring your own bottle”) addressed to more than a hundred people by Martin Reynolds, Mr. Johnson’s private secretary. This holiday took place on May 20 2020 in the Gardens of Downing Street. According to many sources – anonymous – cited by the British media, up to forty people participated in the festivities, including Mr. Johnson and his future Woman Carrie (with whom he was engaged at the time).
In that time, the United Kingdom was confined and the gatherings were limited to only two people. An hour before the “Byob Party” of May 20, the Minister of Culture, Oliver Dowden, explained in a press conference, from Downing Street, that the British had to continue to remain as much as possible at home. In the London parks, the police dispersed those who attempted picnics, threatening them with several hundred sterling books of fine if they did not obey.