A protest is to be held outside Downing Street on Friday amid growing anger over revelations in the "partygate" report over the way cleaners and security staff were treated. Sue Gray said in her report that she learned of multiple examples of “unacceptable” treatment of security and cleaning staff during her investigation.
She wrote: “I found that some staff had witnessed or been subjected to behaviours at work which they had felt concerned about but at times felt unable to raise properly. I was made aware of multiple examples of a lack of respect and poor treatment of security and cleaning staff. This was unacceptable.”
Staff members “drank excessively” at the Downing Street Christmas party on December 18 2020, and a cleaner found red wine was spilled on one wall the next morning, the report said. United Voices of the World (UVW), a union which represents cleaners and security guards in government buildings, has called the protest outside Downing Street.
