Email shows Boris Johnson aide invited No 10 staff to lockdown ‘BYOB’ party
by Rowena Mason, Jessica Elgot and Robert Booth from World news | The Guardian on (#5TVYK)
Police investigating reports that Martin Reynolds invited 100 employees and PM attended at time when social mixing was banned
Boris Johnson was accused on Monday night of an utterly outrageous" breach of lockdown rules as a leaked email showed one of his top officials invited more than 100 Downing Street staff to a bring your own booze" party during the first lockdown. The police are now investigating.
The prime minister is believed to have attended the No 10 garden party on 20 May 2020 along with Carrie Johnson, then his fiancee, after it was advertised by his principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds.
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