hello and welcome. borisjohnson will be under renewed pressure to explain a christmas party in downing street last year when he appears at prime minister s questions today. footage has emerged which shows senior staff laughing and joking about the event. the opposition labour leader, sir keir starmer, has urged the prime minister to come clean and apologise because, at the time, coronavirus rules banned such events. number ten has maintained that there was no party and no rules had been broken. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. party? what party? the party that number 10 said didn t happen. in the building where boris johnson said tight covid rules were always followed. the party last year that a guest told us had food, drinks and games, and the party we now seem to see downing street staffjoking about a few days later. this was a practice press conference for allegra stratton, just hired as the prime minister s press spokesperson. i ve just seen reports on twi
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