‘I put my arms around her’: doctor’s story captures anger at No 10 parties

Prit Buttar, who tweeted about comforting grieving woman, says he wanted to show difference in experience between ordinary people and Downing Street

When Dr Prit Buttar, a retired GP, decided to break social distancing rules and offer his embrace to a bereaved woman, it was a gesture of core humanity. Everybody on the team would have done exactly the same, Covid or no Covid," he said from his study near Kirkcudbright.

He did not envisage, a year on, that his recollection of that moment would inspire a cathartic outpouring of similar memories from people across the UK, or that he would become a reluctant - though passionate - advocate for the fury and dismay of ordinary people at the boozy rule-breaking in the seat of power.