It’s the most wonderful time of the year – except if you’re working in Boris Johnson’s press office. Much has been made in recent days of No. 10’s lockdown shenanigans, amid reports that Boris Johnson’s aides threw a party last December when London was under Tier 3 restrictions, which banned mixing between households. According to the Daily Mirror, about 40 to 50 Downing Street staff packed ‘cheek by jowl’ into a medium-sized room in the No. 10 bunker for a ‘boozy’ Christmas shindig – a bit like Downfall, but without the hope.
Naturally, such claims have prompted an outpouring of anger, indignation and disgust from the usual suspects of the permanently enraged brigade. And no-one has been keener to lead the Twitter charge than the ever-online queen of Sky News, Kay Burley, Osterley’s answer to Miranda Priestly. On her show this morning, Burley demonstrated both her flare for publicity and penchant for generating headlines by grilling Policing Minister Kit Malthouse as to whether a ‘Covid rule-breaking Christmas party’ had taken place.
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