Comedian Lee Mack made a joke about partygate as he addressed an audience including the Prime Minister at Platinum Party at the Palace. Speaking in front of Boris Johnson, who was in the royal box outside the gates of Buckingham Palace, he said: “Finally we can say the words ‘party’ and ‘gate’ and it’s a positive.”
The gag referencing the gatherings at Downing Street during lockdown drew cheers and laughs from the crowd. Mack then quipped: "It wasn't in the autocue, admittedly". He swiftly moved on with words of appreciation for the opening performance by Queen + Adam Lambert.
Mack then replicated former Queen frontman Freddie Mercury’s “Ay-Oh” chant with the crowd, prompting laughs from the Duke of Cambridge and his children.
