Michael Gove has issued an apology over a "terrible" Partygate video revealed by The Mirror showing Tories at a lockdown rule-bending Christmas bash in December 2020.
The senior Cabinet minister said the footage is "completely out of order" - but declined to be drawn into whether the Metropolitan Police should launch a probe, reports the Mirror. The previously unseen video shows staff boozing, dancing and mocking lockdown laws at the height of Covid at Conservative Campaign Headquarters.
One attendee can be heard saying: "As long as we don't stream that we're, like, bending the rules," before laughing while a man and woman hold hands and dance. Mr Gove told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday show: "I want to apologise to everyone who, looking at that ... will think these people are flouting the rules designed to protect us all."
