“It was not about drinking – until the prime minister arrived,” a source told The Sunday Times.
“It was the usual drink to wash on Friday night.
“Boris approached, chattering, with a red tow box and gathered the employees around the table of the press center, where there were bottles of alcohol.
“He said he wanted to say a few words about Lee and started pouring drinks for people and drinking himself.
“He’s baking it.”
A photographer was reportedly present during the event and took pictures of Mr Johnson.
“He was on Downing Street, people around the table and there was a lot of alcohol. If you put this picture on the front pages, I think a lot of people, MPs who have evaluated a lot of things, will not do it because it looks like a huge p —– up. “
Mr Johnson’s alleged presence at the social event would be difficult to reconcile with his previous statements in municipalities about gatherings during the blockade and his initial insistence that “all the rules have been followed”.
Asked at the House of Commons if there was a party on Downing Street on November 13, 2020, he said: “No, but I’m sure that whatever happened, the instructions were followed and the rules were followed all the time.
Labor has accused the prime minister of “humiliating his cabinet”, with MP Angela Raynor, the party’s deputy leader, saying: “If the latest reports are correct, it would mean that not only the prime minister attended the parties, but and had a finger in the motives of at least one of them.
“He deliberately deceived the British people at every turn.
A former Conservative minister said no one in the party wanted to “shake the boat” before the local elections in May, but warned that if the Tories did poorly, it could be a “catalyst” for renewed attempts to overthrow their leader.
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