Downing Street employees have said they thought the parties held during the confinement had been approved by Boris Johnson because “I was grabbing a glass for him.”
Three insiders told a BBC Panorama documentary of chaotic and crowded meetings in the heart of the government in which people sat on the lap of others and the rooms were strewn with rubble.
The revelations intensify pressure on the Prime Minister ahead of the release of Sue Gray’s report on confinement meetings, which is expected to be released today.
A photo shows Boris Johnson at a confinement party in November 2020
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One BBC source said they believed they had a license from the prime minister to attend the meetings, on the grounds that he was there.
They said, “It simply came to our notice then