LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under fire Wednesday after the video appears from his senior maid joking about holding a Christmas party at Downing Street last year when social meetings are prohibited under Covid rules.
The government has been accused of being repeatedly from the hypocrisy of the violation of the rules of locking and in the health secretary of the Great Scandal Matt Hancock resigned in June after Revelation that he broke the restrictions on Koronavirus during the aide.
The video, obtained by Broadcaster ITV News, shows Secretary Johnson’s Press Allegra Stratton, adviser Ed Oldfied and other staff joked about “fictionary parties” during the training press conference on December 22, without media.
In the recording of leaking, Stratton was seen answering questions about the previous Friday Christmas party – when the alleged desperate meeting took place.
“This fiction party is a business meeting and it’s not socially saturated,” he laughed at the exchange of joking about “cheese and wine”.
At that time, London was under strict Covid restrictions and social meetings in the room two or more people were prohibited.
Responding to videos, Downing Street insisted: “There is no Christmas party. Covid rules have been followed at any time.”
Keir Starmer, the leader of the Opposition Labor Party, blew up the government for the “embarrassing” action when England was under locking.
“People throughout the country follow the rules, even when it means separated from loved ones. They have the right to expect the government to do the same,” Starmer tweeted, with a link to the video.
“Lying and laughing about lies is embarrassing. We have prime ministers who socially distance themselves from the truth.”
‘Disappointing and embarrassing’
The leader of the Scottish National Party, Ian Blackford, said the Prime Minister could not be trusted and called him to resign.
“Here we have number 10, the government in London, breaking Covid’s own rules and then joking about the video,” Blackford told Stv News.
“It was truly unacceptable and I have to say, unfortunately, that on the basis of this behavior … he must leave, and he must leave now.”
Some Parliamentarians from the Johnson Conservative Party also wanted answers.
“Party No.1 has all the advantages of the other ‘Barnard Castle’ Moment,” North Thanet MP Roger Gale Tweeted, referred to last year’s incident when Johnson then chief Aide Dominic Cummings drove hundreds of kilometers during locking, sparking anger felt by the government’s hypocrisy.
“No.10 clearly has some serious questions to be answered. Fast.”
During the Mock Press conference, Oldfield said reported about street parties and asked: “Will the Prime Minister forgive a Christmas party?” Where Stratton said, “What is the answer?”
Oldfield said he didn’t know as Staff Street Downing said to laugh that “it’s not a party … it’s cheese and wine.”
Covid-19 Bereaved Family for Justice said it was “behavior of people who think they are above us.”
“There were no words to describe how annoyed and embarrassing it to then hear the Boris Johnson team laughed about breaking the rules they had made, while others followed them and could only say goodbye to the people they loved through the screen,” he said. A statement.
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