Restrictions meant only 30 people could attend the service in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, rather than the 800 expected for an occasion of its significance.
faces a fresh wave of anger after it emerged that Downing Street hosted two parties during last year’s Covid restrictions.
A No 10 spokesperson described the gathering as a ‘leaving speech’ attended by staff, but Mr Slack acknowledged it ‘should not have happened at the time that it did’. Although Covid cases and deaths were near their lowest ebb of the year, the events were hosted while many of the restrictions brought in to tackle the UK’s Delta-driven second wave were still in place.
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