Email proves Downing Street staff held drinks party at height of lockdown
— Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 (@fascinatorfun) January 10, 2022
100 people invited
40 attended
Less than 1 hr before the drinks, Oliver Dowden had reminded the rest of 🏴 at the daily press conference that they must only meet in pairs outdoors https://t.co/iuLSFWCySW
Tuesday's Daily Mail: "Boris rocked by new party revelations" #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/mCgSlr4SuD pic.twitter.com/BJSEHb4WQS
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) January 10, 2022
Tweeted April 2020 pic.twitter.com/LS0yCByy6P
— brendanbelfast 🇪🇺 (@brendanbelfast) January 10, 2022
If he was furious about the one his staff joked about, he'll be livid about the one he was at. pic.twitter.com/PmXIOa9WUQ
— HENRY MORRIS (@mrhenrymorris) January 10, 2022
And given there are cameras on the Downing Street garden it’s a bit weird the police didn’t move in to close down an illegal party
— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) January 10, 2022
Civil servant Sue Gray is having to investigate very senior civil service colleagues and the Prime Minister. Their futures largely sit in her hands. Can she can do that without any regard to her own position and working relationships?
— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) January 10, 2022
Let me put this politely: it is not *entirely clear* why the Prime Minister needs to wait for Sue Gray's report to find out if he went to a party in his own garden
— Gavin Barwell (@GavinBarwell) January 10, 2022
Dominic Cummings could have sat in the Rose Garden & said he was the world hula-hooping champion & Boris Johnson & the rest would have backed him, because they knew what he knew https://t.co/xuXp8A2loi
— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 Threads tobyontv (@TobyonTV) January 10, 2022
If only there was an explanation. https://t.co/T5DxmftX0Y
— David Gauke (@DavidGauke) January 10, 2022
Johnson has created a complicity in rule-breaking in those around him.
— Hardeep Matharu (@Hardeep_Matharu) December 10, 2021
"No ethical leadership from the top… [increases] the likelihood of these things happening further down the chain from people who say 'well, the boss isn’t concerned about the rules'"pic.twitter.com/FnoD7wAYib
Now you must simply stand up in HoC and state clearly that #Johnson lied to the House on 8 Dec. No equivocation, no parliamentary courtesies. https://t.co/WUkAY2ER3t
— John Ritchie (@JohnRitchie3) January 10, 2022
If you listen carefully to Oliver Dowden on the same afternoon as the No 10 party telling us we can only meet one person outdoors, you can hear the party already. pic.twitter.com/D6slCI3QdG
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) January 10, 2022
— Irish Agreement (@irishagreement) January 10, 2022
Tuesday's Mirror: "No 10 party email bombshell: Invite to do what you like" #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/mCgSlrmtTd pic.twitter.com/lD0BflQqNw
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) January 10, 2022
“To make matters worse, in Sep I sat in that same garden, looked the PM in the eyes & told him how my dad had died. He told me he had ‘done everything he could’ to protect my dad, knowing he had partied in that same spot the very day that dad’s death certificate was signed.”2/2
— Rachel Wearmouth (@REWearmouth) January 10, 2022
"It is not surprising to me that some people be might having a drink after work, having a party is a completely different thing."
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) January 10, 2022
Conservative MP Philip Dunne on the alleged Downing Street garden party#Newsnight https://t.co/vZ0vTR0nlD pic.twitter.com/GMedvtAL0i
Presumably Boris Johnson's having a desperate phone around this evening to see which Minister fancies a cheeky peerage in exchange for being butchered on the morning news shows tomorrow.
— Edwin Hayward (@edwinhayward) January 10, 2022
Whoever is the Minister doing tomorrow’s early media round must be hoping they’ll spend the whole morning stuck in a lift.
— David Gauke (@DavidGauke) January 10, 2022
I’m told the Brexit Opportunities Unit is to merge with the Unicorn Breeding Programme and come under the direct control of the Boris Johnson Department of Ethics in Government. https://t.co/dNG8kSvom4
— Gavin Esler (@gavinesler) January 10, 2022
Totally normal country….
Tell us: what should the Queen’s platinum pudding be? https://t.co/32ThcdeSNh
— The Guardian (@guardian) January 10, 2022
Inventing puddings and planting trees are just some of the things Britons are invited to do for Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, events to mark her 70th anniversary on the throne https://t.co/lNDlvnGI03 pic.twitter.com/LwKiG7bkzd
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 10, 2022
The anti-monarchy group Republic is set to launch a campaign titled 'Not another 70' to coincide with the Queen's Platinum Jubilee https://t.co/2LBdokOW3b
— The National (@ScotNational) January 10, 2022
"Will the minister take steps to encourage public broadcasters to play the national anthem?"
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) January 6, 2022
Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell says singing the national anthem creates "unity and pride" and should be played during the year of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. pic.twitter.com/0zlz4AekSB
That Tory MP who wants the BBC to play the National Anthem every night 1st raised the idea 5 years ago – Newsnight reaction was brilliant… pic.twitter.com/V0LAPRoQj0
— Joe O'Shea (@josefoshea) January 6, 2022
The Overnight Note 