Officials who tried to stop illegal lockdown gatherings in Downing Street were “mocked” by other members of staff who sank into a culture of boozy parties, according to accounts from government insiders.
Details of what life was like inside Boris Johnson’s partygate Downing Street have been given to the BBC’s Laura Kuennsberg ahead of the publication of the Sue Gray report.
In a special Panorama programme on BBC 2 to be aired tonight, on the eve of the Prime Minister receiving the explosive Sue Gray report, it details what it was like in No 10 during the covid lockdown.