least bad party the borisjohnson had been linked to and therefore, if he got that and others looked more serious but were in the mail were coming, but sounds like now or reports this evening that there may be fine striping in whitehall in boxes right now to do with the byob, bring your own booze e mail party on may the 20th 2020. this is one where martin reynolds, who, he was the private secretary to boris johnson at the time and actually sent an e mail to staff in downing street during lockdown saying please, bring your own booze and come to the downing street garden for a get together of more than hundred people. it s must be socially distanced drinks to take advantage of the lovely weather. weather. the prime minister has mentioned and known to have been there for over 20
party during a lockdown, an invite from itv are sent to around 100 of number ten s staff. the prime minister today declining to get into the details of any such socialising. all of that, as you know, is the subject of a proper investigation by sue grey. so have you been interviewed by sue grey, and if not, would you object to the question? all of that is subject to an investigation by sue grey. remember back then, in the horror of spring 2020, the rules were clear. you could spend time outdoors with people you lived with or with one other person. and yet, in the building where the rules were being made, a plan was formed for a gathering in downing street s garden on may the 20th 2020. i m told around 30 people attended, including, according to two eyewitnesses, the prime minister and his wife, with a long table set out in the garden for drinks and snacks.
let s go to back to victoria in downing street. just reading some of your messages coming in from all over the country about what you thought of the prime minister in prime minister s questions yesterday and what you thought of his defence. he said he believed implicitly it was a work event he was at, in the sunshine, on may the 20th, 2020, during lockdown. charlotte says i want a job where i can drink wine and call it a meeting! a number of conservatives are asking for borisjohnson to resign over what happened back in may 2020, and his admission that he was there for 25 minutes, at that occasion in the downing street garden, and this while thousands of families in the uk said their last goodbyes to loved ones by video link or through the phone.
remember back then, in the horror of spring 2020, the rules were stict and clear. you could spend time outdoors with people you lived with or with only one other person. and yet, in the building where the rules were being made, a plan was formed for a gathering in downing street s garden on may the 20th 2020. i m told around 30 people attended, including, according to two eyewitnesses, the prime minister and his wife, with a long table set out in the garden for drinks and snacks. and there was surprise and concern among some staff at the plan. eyebrows more than raised at the e mail invited sent out by martin reynolds in black and white. messages sent between staff and showing tonight to the bbc, that some were well aware of the problem. 0ne wrote at the time. another said. all number ten spokesperson would say tonight was.
bit longer, some of the so called one nation conservative group, also an optically happy with the prime minister, some of them former ministers themselves, and then some of the arch brexiteers, also not happy with the prime minister at the moment. the letters themselves are something shrouded in secrecy, but one thing that turned the mood a lot yesterday against the prime minister was the interview that he did with broadcasters where he claims that nobody had told him that that event on may the 20th 2020 in downing street was against the rules. this is something that caused quite a fierce backlash and has been on the front pages of every newspaper today after his former aide, dominic cummings, wrote on his blog that he didn t tell the prime minister that that event would be against the rules, and he also warned other officials at the time. today in defence of borisjohnson, the armed forces ministerjames heappey seem to claim that it wouldn t be the prime minister s fault if he didn t k