lockdown inviting them to a bring your own booze party to which about 30 or a0 people turned up in the gardens in lockdown. that was breaching rules because of the time you are only allowed to meet with one other person from outside your household outside. even that day, government officials had been on television warning people that those were the rules. so it was seen very much as a real embarrassment at the very least to the government at the time, orwhen very least to the government at the time, or when it came out, rather, a year later. so they will be no doubt that will be talked about in question today in the inquiry. then we will be hearing from lee cain, the director of communications for the director of communications for the prime minister, and that is going to be significant also, because we have also had an indication of the private correspondence going on between lee cain and other senior officials during that time which gives you a bit of a glimpse of some of t
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what we know has now transpired is that some people at one of those gatherings on the eve of prince philip s funeral on the 15th of april 2021 have been issued with fixed penalty notice fines. this was the leaving do of james slack, who was previously director of communications in downing street, now deputy editor at the sun newspaper. we know the prime minister himself wasn t at this gathering. he has apologised for them, particularly in light of the criticism they received at the time. significant to just reflect on the fact that this is the first time that police have actually confirmed that lockdown rules were broken in downing street itself. we already know that other fines have been issued for separate events that took place in the cabinet office in whitehall. this is the first time we have had confirmation of laws being broken in downing street itself, contrary to what the prime minister had said at the time, that no rules were broken in number ten. i think this makes it a very