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Let ME Eat Cake! BoJo's 2020 Birthday Bash in the Spotlight Amid Partygate Row
Let ME Eat Cake! BoJo's 2020 Birthday Bash in the Spotlight Amid Partygate Row
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Johnson has already faced calls to resign — including from backbenchers of his own party — over a series of media leaks and rumours of staff illegally partying... 24.01.2022, Sputnik International
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was treated to a birthday party — complete with cake — in the closing days of the first COVID-19 lockdown.The gathering at 10 Downing Street in 2020 took place four days before the PM announced that the UK "national hibernation" would come to an end with the relaxation of social distancing rules and several other regulations.ITV News reported claims that Johnson's wife, Carrie, organised a surprise celebration for his 56th birthday on the afternoon of June 19, 2020.Up to 30 people were reported to have gathered in the Cabinet Room at 2PM that day, to wish Johnson a happy birthday on his return from a visit to a school in Hertfordshire, north of London.Reportedly present was interior designer Lulu Lytle, who was at the time overseeing the renovation of the PM's apartment over 11 Downing Street. Cost over-runs on the home improvement project were paid for by Conservative Party donors, and are the subject of a previous scandal. Downing Street downplayed the report.HelloThey also denied rumours that Lytle had attended another party that evening at the PM's flat that breached lockdown rules.Johnson has faced calls to resign from the opposition — and some of his own party's backbenchers — over a series of media leaks and rumours of staff partying at Number 10 during the lockdown.
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Let ME Eat Cake! BoJo's 2020 Birthday Bash in the Spotlight Amid Partygate Row
21:55 GMT 24.01.2022 (Updated: 15:18 GMT 28.05.2023) Johnson has already faced calls to resign — including from backbenchers of his own party — over a series of media leaks and rumours of staff illegally partying at Number 10 during the lockdown.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was treated to a birthday
party — complete with cake — in the closing days of the first COVID-19 lockdown.
The gathering at 10 Downing Street in 2020 took place four days before the PM announced that the UK "national hibernation" would come to an end with the relaxation of social distancing rules and several other regulations.
ITV News reported claims that Johnson's wife, Carrie, organised a surprise celebration for his 56th birthday on the afternoon of June 19, 2020.
Up to 30 people were reported to have gathered in the Cabinet Room at 2PM that day, to wish Johnson a happy birthday on his return from a visit to a school in Hertfordshire, north of London.
Reportedly present was interior designer Lulu Lytle, who was at the time overseeing the renovation of the PM's apartment over 11 Downing Street. Cost over-runs on the home improvement project were paid for by Conservative Party donors, and are the subject of a previous scandal.
Downing Street downplayed the report.
"A group of staff working in No 10 that day gathered briefly in the Cabinet Room after a meeting to wish the Prime Minister a happy birthday," a spokesperson offered. "He was there for less than ten minutes."
19 January 2022, 15:54 GMT
They also denied rumours that Lytle had attended another party that evening at the PM's flat that breached lockdown rules.
“This is totally untrue," the Downing Street spokesperson claimed, suggesting instead that, "In line with the rules at the time the prime minister hosted a small number of family members outside that evening.”
Johnson has faced
calls to resign from the opposition — and some of his own party's
backbenchers — over a series of media leaks and rumours of staff partying at Number 10 during the lockdown.
