Despite indoor socialising being banned under lockdown rules, it's been reported that the Prime Minister encouraged aides to ‘let off steam’.
Downing Street staff held ‘wine-time Fridays’ throughout the pandemic with Boris Johnson witnessing the gatherings regularly, it has been reported.that the Prime Minister encouraged aides to ‘let off steam’, despite indoor socialising being banned under lockdown rules.
The paper says this happened on December 11, 2020 – when rules banned two or more people from different households meeting indoors, unless ‘reasonably necessary’ for work purposes. Number 10 did not deny the claims but pointed to the ongoing Whitehall investigation into multiple allegations of Covid rule breaches in Downing Street and other government buildings during the course of the pandemic.
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