Two new Downing Street parties add pressure on Boris Johnson

Members of the British Prime Minister’s Cabinet, Boris Johnson, held two farewell parties, which lasted Until sunrise, at the Downing Street premises on April 16, 2021, despite the restrictions in place at the time. It also so happens that the United Kingdom was then in national mourning for death, a week earlier, from the Duke of Edinburgh, queen’s husband Elizabeth II, who had to sit alone at her funeral by the social distance required by the anticovid rules. The newspaper “The Daily Telegraph” – traditionally the one closest to Johnson, who worked for him for a long time – published this Thursday the exclusive of the celebration of the two farewell parties, which adds even more pressure on a prime minister besieged by the revelations about alleged infractions in Downing Street. On that date, a Friday, the country was in the second phase of the de-escalation, which prohibited socializing indoors and limited outdoor gatherings to six people. This did not prevent, according to the newspaper, about 30 people will participate in two farewell parties that same night, in which, according to witnesses, alcohol was consumed and there were dances and music until the wee hours of the morning. The celebrations homenajeaban a James Slack, Johnson’s former communications director, who left to take on the post of deputy editor at the tabloid “The Sun,” and one of the Prime Minister’s personal photographers. That day, according to the “Telegraph”, the prime minister was not at his official residence. The high official Sue Gray is investigating the celebration of celebrations and other possible violations of the regulations against covid-19 in the Johnson Executive. The opposition has openly asked the resignation of the prime minister, to which some voices of the same Conservative Party have also been added, such as the “Tory” leader in Scotland, Douglas Ross. Johnson apologized last Wednesday in Parliament for his participation in a party in May 2020 in Downing Street. However, he tried to justify it by assuring that he thought it was a work meeting and that he did not spend more than 25 minutes in the garden where the celebration took place, which had been summoned by his personal secretary.