Leaked email about drinks event at No 10 explodes Johnson’s defences
Analysis: cheery invitation to Downing Street garden at odds with coronavirus mixing rules at the time
On the day that one of the prime minister’s most senior aides cheerily emailed more than 100 staff to suggest drinks in the Downing Street garden, a cabinet minister was telling the public they could meet only one person outside their household in an outdoor public place, 2 metres apart.
The starkly different advice from Oliver Dowden at the No 10 press conference was less than an hour before the email from Martin Reynolds was sent on 20 May 2020. And that disparity would seem to encapsulate better than perhaps any other alleged No 10 party – and there were many – the “one rule for them” approach that has been so damaging for Boris Johnson.
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