Channel 4 announces Partygate the True Story docudrama

Broadcaster says programme will contrast revelry in Downing Street with hardship across rest of UK

Partygate, the scandal that helped bring down Boris Johnson and may yet cost him his parliamentary seat, is being made into docudrama for Channel 4.

Partygate the True Story will dramatise numerous drunken parties in Downing during the Covid lockdown, including booze runs to fill a staff wine fridge, vomiting officials, and the breaking of a child's swing during a garden party.