Susanna Reid took a shaky breath as she read out an emotional comment from a care worker reacting to the Prime Minister drinking alcohol with several people, during the second lockdown.
Boris Johnson is facing fresh accusations he lied to Parliament after photographs emerged of him raising a glass at a Downing Street leaving party during lockdown. The images - obtained by ITV News - were taken at a do for departing communications chief Lee Cain on 13 November 2020, just days after Mr Johnson had ordered a second national lockdown in England.
Mr Johnson was not fined in relation to the event when photographs showed him, drink in hand, alongside a table strewn with food and wine bottles.
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There were at least eight other people in the room at a time when people were banned from social mixing, other than to meet one person outside, and at least one individual has received a fixed penalty notice in relation to an event on that date.
Reacting to the story, Susanna said a viewer, who was a care worker in the second lockdown, had contacted them.
Susanna said: "We've had a viewer get in touch", before taking a deep shaky breath.
She continued: "I'm sure you're going to have people come on and say it doesn't matter move on, but to many of us out here it does matter.
"In November 2020 it was awful at our care home we were living in PPE and having to deal not just with the virus but families kept apart by the virus talking through windows or tiny Zoom screens on iPads.
"People with dementia who couldn't grasp what was going on and thought all their family were dead because they hadn't seen them in so long. That glass of wine pictured in his hand was basically thrown in the face of everyone who followed the rules he set including the NHS workers he stood outside No 10 and clapped for."
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