It was the night the Prime Minister was pictured raising a glass of fizz at a leaving party at the height of lockdown. Some 150 miles away in Cardiff a student had just been seen at a gathering in a flat.
The teenager told police he was in the flat to look after an unwell friend. But as one South Wales Police officer wrote in her report "this excuse did not seem reasonable" because the student was carrying a can of alcohol.
The presence of alcohol was less decisive when it came to the Metropolitan Police view on Boris Johnson attending the Downing Street leaving do for communications boss Lee Cain. Not only was the Prime Minister photographed raising a toast but he was surrounded by two bottles of champagne or cava, four bottles of wine, and half a bottle of gin.
