Insiders who attended events at Downing Street during lockdown have told the BBC how staff crowded together, sat on each other's laps and how bins were overflowing with rubbish. Empties were left on the table and bottles left around parts of the building.
A BBC Panorama programme, on at 7pm tonight, features testimonies of three insiders who were at the events. They describe arriving for work the morning after a get-together to find bottles lying around parts of the building, bins overflowing with rubbish and empties left on the table and that events featured dozens of staff crowded together, and parties going so late that, on occasion, some ended up staying in Downing Street all night.
They also said staff mocked others including a security guard who tried to stop what was going on. The accounts come a day before the senior civil servant Sue Gray is expected to deliver her report on lockdown parties in No 10.
