As she read the damning details of pandemic karaoke parties and BYOB events at the heart of government, Rebecca Highton remembered how she'd spent the summer of 2020 - trapped in a hospital room, unable to leave her son's bedside.
In May 2020, Rebecca's then-three-year-old son Alfie, who has spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, was undergoing vital life-or-death surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. For weeks, Rebecca couldn't see husband Zak or other son Rory at all, while she watched Alfie fight for his life from a hospital room she couldn't leave.
The Newcastle mum said she was 'insulted but not surprised' by the contents of the long-awaited Sue Gray report, which found 'failures of leadership and judgment' in Whitehall had resulted in regular gatherings that broke Covid guidance.
