the first of king charles reign as monarch. now on bbc news newscast. this is the second time we have put custard today, because this is the second time we have put custard today, because when this is the second time we have put custard today, because when the report was published this morning, we assembled and it a bit of an extra newscast, which we have published on bbc sounds. so that was the rehearsal, and now we can try and get it right. yeah. so you can probably tell me very quickly and very easily what s in it now. yeah, its extraordinary, really. the thing is about today, the reason this kind of postcode and more widely the electorate. and we ve got some people from this postcode with us here as well. well indeed. i ll introduce them now, shall i? salma shah, former adviser to sajid javid. hello. and pippa crerar, basically the inventor of partygate as a news story. you didn t do it, you didn t instigate it. i wasn t at any of those parties. just to be clear. but y
i was quite surprised that it felt like that, because i thought it would just be about what he said in parliament. yeah, they didn t re litigate the whole partygate - saga but you re right, it was all there in black and white. and there was actually one example, a new example that we hadn t - seen before, of evidence - from a downing street official who said that basically, - it was as though normal life continued during the pandemic there. there were birthday parties, leaving dos, wine time - fridays all went on. and a line which really struck me was that staff were warned - when they walked out of the building ijust to be careful with the camerasl that were out there, and the conclusion by this official that it was all a pantomime. | most of the report wasn t about| what went on in downing street. i it was about boris johnson and hisl response in the house of commons. but that was just a little reminder to me that that did underpin it all. and, yes, it does feel a little bit li
about what was happening in number 10 at the time. so it almost feels like a prosecution of the whole of partygate. i was quite surprised that it felt like that, because i thought it would just be about what he said in parliament. yeah, they didn t re litigate the whole partygate - saga but you re right, it was all there in black and white. and there was actually one example, a new example that we hadn t - seen before, of evidence - from a downing street official who said that basically, - it was as though normal life continued during the pandemic there. there were birthday parties, leaving dos, wine time - fridays all went on. and a line which really struck me was that staff were warned - when they walked out of the building ijust to be careful with the camerasl that were out there, and the conclusion by this official that it was all a pantomime. | most of the report wasn t about| what went on in downing street. i it was about boris johnson and hisl response in the house of common
this is what many tory mps who were keeping him quiet feared, that there were more allegations to come, and that there could be even more allegations over the next few days into next week. the second reason is, when you look at these allegations, they sound a lot like a party, and not much like work at all. we have heard consistently that there were people who were required to be in work in downing street, and that that mattered because they were not being invited into social occasions, they were just having a drink at their desk after work. the suggestion that people were dancing, music was being played at into the night, i think it is a very difficult one for number ten to answer. the allegations aren t being denied by downing street. downing street is saying that the included people who were in work anyway, that other people who went to some of these leaving dos were joining via
these leaving dos were joining via the zoom, but we have had these allegations for quite some time. christmas was supposed to be an end to some of the pressure, downing street hoped. it has kept coming. the allegation the prime minister was at one of these events, the fact more will keep coming, suggested pressure willjust keep growing. the question now is whether to prompt more conservative mps to come forward and say that they think the prime minister has run out of road. nick, for the moment, thank you very much. prince andrew s military titles and royal patronages have been handed back to the queen, meaning he will face a civil case against him as a private citizen. virginia giuffre, the woman who accuses the duke of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager has said her goal was to show that the rich and powerful were not above the law . the duke denies the accusations. our royal correspondent