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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Dan Haygarth

Five Merseyside families who lost loved ones while Downing Street partied

Boris Johnson has been told he ‘must resign’ as Prime Minister after he admitted celebrating his birthday with a party inside No 10 during the first lockdown in 2020.

At that time - June 19, 2020 - social mixing of more than two people indoors was banned under lockdown restrictions.

Downing Street confirmed that staff "gathered briefly" in the Cabinet Room to wish the Prime Minister a happy birthday, but it has also been reported that the get-together, organised by Mr Johnson's wife Carrie, included M&S nibbles and a cake.

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