UK’S JOHNSON APOLOGISES FOR VIDEO BUT STILL DENIES CHRISTMAS PARTY

Wed 08 December 2021:

Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has apologized for holding a Christmas party last year when the country was under lockdown.

He has promised “disciplinary action,” as well as an internal investigation into the leaked video of senior aides joking about a Christmas party.

Despite his apologies, Johnson denied that a party was held at No. 10 Downing Street.

“I understand and share the anger up and down the country at seeing No 10 staff seeming to make light of lockdown measures,” he said.

“I apologise unreservedly for the offence that it has caused… and I apologise for the impression that it gives.”

At the time of the Downing Street gathering, tens of millions of people across Britain were banned from meeting close family and friends for a traditional Christmas celebration – or even from bidding farewell to dying relatives.

Labour party leader Keir Starmer called Johnson ”a parody of a prime minister.”

According to him, “They (Conservative Party members) knew there was a party, they knew it was against the rules, they knew they couldn’t admit it, and they thought it was funny.”

“Does the Prime Minister think he has the moral authority to lead and to ask the British people to stick to the rules?” he asked.

During a raucous parliamentary question session, Johnson faced calls for his resignation from some opposition politicians.

Tory MP Roger Gale said, “This isn’t a laughing matter.”

During a lockdown, Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former main adviser, drove hundreds of kilometers to avoid his London home.

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