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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Dan Bloom & Pippa Crerar & Kieran Isgin

Boris Johnson pictured raising glass at alleged Downing Street lockdown 'party'

A picture of Prime Minister Boris Johnson has emerged appearing to show him raising a glass at an alleged Downing Street party during the second coronavirus lockdown.

The set of four pictures, published by ITV News and reported on by the Mirror, clearly shows the Prime Minister accompanied by a group of aides around a table covered in bottles of alcohol and party food. Sources told the ITV that the photos were taken at a leaving do for his communications chief Lee Cain on November 13, 2020.

Eight days earlier, Mr Johnson had imposed England’s second national lockdown, which lasted four weeks. At the time the party supposedly took place, indoor social gatherings were banned by the government between people form separate households.

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