‘I feel like a fool’: Britons who grieved and died alone as No 10 partied

Sylvia Jackson, who died in a nursing home in the first wave. Her daughter, Lindsay, was unable to see her in the weeks before she died. Photograph: handout

Cassie Garbutt’s brother, Glen Southern, was in the grip of a mental health crisis on the night revellers in No 10 got so drunk that one vomited and others got into a fight.

As Cassie read Sue Gray’s report on Wednesday morning, it was the bacchanalian account of a Downing Street staffer’s leaving drinks on 18 June 2020 that was hardest to accept.