Partygate triggers us all in different ways. It wasn’t the No10 press office’s Christmas booze-up that did it for me personally. Nor the spring evening drinks party in the Downing Street back garden, as asinine as they both were. It was Boris’s birthday party, revealed on Monday.
If you have children born between March and July, and you obeyed the rules, they haven’t had a birthday party for almost three years now. My two sons haven’t. So many have suffered so much worse than us in this gruelling pandemic. We’ve got off lightly. But it’s the emotional connection that cuts through with any news story. The spark that unlocks the individual frustration, the personal loss, however big or small.
