Dominic Cummings claimed to warn the British Prime Minister before holding this party, for which a hundred invitations were sent.
Le Monde with AFP
The British Prime Minister is always entangled in the scandal of Booze Parties (“evenings watered”). Boris Johnson, denied, Tuesday, January 18, having been warned that a festival contrary to the anti-Covid rules would be organized in Downing Street in May 2020, as accused by his former Dominic Cummings advisor.
The Conservative manager, who had not been informed of the organization of this Booze Party on May 20, 2020 in the first first confinement, had apologized to the deputies after revelations in the press on his presence at this Event, one of the many pots that would have been organized at Downing Street during the confines of the last two years.
But Dominic Cummings, influential brain of the victorious campaign for Brexit, accused the social networks Mr. Johnson for lying in Parliament by asserting that he thought that he attended twenty-five minutes in The gardens of his official residence, was a working meeting.
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He stated that he himself and another manager had warned Boris Johnson before the party’s hold, for which the Prime Minister’s Secretary had sent a hundred invitations.
The one who regularly launches attacks against his former head since his resignation, in November 2020, wrote about his Twitter account:
“The Prime Minister has been warned about these invitations, he knew it was a pot, he lied to Parliament.”
He added on his blog that Boris Johnson had swept his worries, and be ready to “swear under oath” as other witnesses.
A spokesperson for the head of government denied:
“It is wrong to say that the Prime Minister had been warned in advance about this event.”
He believed “implicitly” that it was a working meeting, he added, referring to the coming conclusions of an internal investigation conducted by a senior official, Sue Gray.
Dominic Cummings had himself been pointing to the anti-Covid rules in the spring of 2020 by traveling with his family in confinement, which was forbidden.
Under pressure, Boris Johnson saw the calls for the resignation multiply into the conservative camp. Downing Street also apologized to Queen Elizabeth II for two holidays organized in April 2021 on the eve of the funeral of his husband, Prince Philip.