A brand-new Partygate video exposed by The Mirror, showing a number of Tories at a lockdown rule-bending Christmas do during the height of the Coronavirus pandemic has 'appalled and sickened' those who lost family members and friends during the pandemic. The previously unseen footage shows staff dancing and mocking pandemic-era laws at the Conservative Campaign HQ in the capital.
It has led to an apology being issued by Cabinet Minister Michael Gove, who dubbed the footage as 'indefensible' while the rest of London was subject to strict barring rules on socialising indoors. Today, a spokesperson for the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign hit out at the video - which showed Tory activists living in 'a parallel universe'.
Amos Waldman, who lost his grandmother in April 2020, told Times Radio: "I was appalled and sickened by the video. It's not a huge surprise given we know what was happening, but the imagery of it was pretty powerful, and completely at odds with what the rest of the country and certainly we as bereaved families and our loved ones were going through at the time."
