Everyone was apparently invited to attend and to form teams.
Quiz night - December: Sources told the BBC that a separate Christmas quiz event was held for Number 10 staff at some point in December.
Downing Street has said Boris Johnson did not attend the event. London had been placed into Tier 3 restrictions on December 16 - the highest level of curbs on freedoms at the time which banned people from different households mixing indoors. Sources claimed that '40 or 50 people' were present.Ĭhristmas party - December 18: Staff in Downing Street are believed to have held a Christmas party, with reports that dozens of people attended the event, some wearing festive jumpers and exchanging Secret Santa presents. Leaving do - November 27: The Prime Minister reportedly gave a speech at a packed Number 10 leaving do for a 'senior aide'. Mr Cummings also suggested there had been 'other flat parties'. The quiz night is one of at least six parties across Whitehall from November to December last year when the Government was ordering the public to stay at home and protect the NHS.ĭom's Gone bash - November 13: Dominic Cummings alleges that the PM held a gathering at his grace-and-favour flat on November 13 last year, the day the adviser was ousted from Downing Street. Pictures show the Prime Minister on-screen making a special appearance as 'quizmaster' for one of the rounds, flanked by staff wearing tinsel and Santa hats. Speaking about the quiz, sources told the Mirror that teams were huddled around computers discussing their answers to questions as they quaffed wine and beer bought from a nearby Tesco, a source revealed.
In addition to the quiz, Downing Street staff are accused of holding a Christmas Party on December 18 and a leaving do at which the PM allegedly gave a short speech on November 27. The PM is said to have angrily told friends at the weekend that the BBC's exhaustive coverage of the party scandal has 'wasted' too much 'public time and attention' when it should be concentrating on urging the public to get their jabs now that 'Omicron is starting to rip'.īut the photo from the quiz adds will raise fresh questions about rule breaking in Number 10.ĭowning Street staff are accused of holding four parties that may have broken lockdown rules last year - including one gathering on November 13 in the Prime Minister's Downing Street flat attended by his wife Carrie. When video of spokeswoman Allegra Stratton joking about another Christmas party allegedly held by staff, Mr Johnson told Parliament: 'I repeat that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party, and that no Covid rules were broken.' The PM has repeatedly batted away allegations of rule breaking last year.
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Pictures obtained by the paper show the Prime Minister on a TV screen beside an aide in a Santa hat at the time when London was under tier two restrictions that banned households from mixing. 10 Christmas party which is now being probed.Īs many as 70 staff attended Downing Street in person despite invitations originally going out for a virtual quiz, according to the Mirror. The quiz took place on December 15 while London was under 'no mixing' guidance - and three days before the No. Boris Johnson personally hosted a Christmas quiz at Downing Street last year, it has been revealed - piling more pressure on the PM over four allegedly lockdown rule-breaking parties attended by his staff.
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