Time to fess up over Downing Street parties, Labour tells Boris Johnson

Angela Rayner says PM ‘presided over a culture of ignoring the rules that he told everyone else to follow’

Labour has accused Boris Johnson of potentially misleading parliament over his knowledge of Downing Street parties, as more details came to light about a quiz he hosted in No 10 last year.

The prime minister came under further pressure on Sunday when a picture emerged of him in a room with aides who wore tinsel and a Santa hat. He read quiz questions to staffers tuning in from home but also groups of officials who were elsewhere in the building, crowded around laptop screens without social distancing, and drinking alcohol. Some staff stayed on afterwards, continuing to socialise.

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