No 10 Christmas party row: Johnson should ‘Have guts to be honest’ about secret ‘do, demands Starmer

Daily Mail published this video item, entitled “No 10 Christmas party row: Johnson should ‘Have guts to be honest’ about secret ‘do, demands Starmer” – below is their description.

They they took part in a fake press conference just days after the alleged December 18 event last year which has raised legal questions and denials of wrongdoing from No10. The clip, discovered by ITV news, shows Allegra Stratton, then the PM’s press secretary, and Ed Oldfield, No10’s head of digital, rehearsing a question and answer session in the No9 briefing room. In it Oldfield asks a question about ‘a Downing Street Christmas party on Friday night’, to which Ms Stratton laughed and replied: ‘I went home.’ When he asked if the Prime Minister would condone such a party, a third voice can be heard saying ‘it wasn’t a party, it was cheese and wine’, before Ms Stratton added: ‘It was a business meeting … this fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced.’

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