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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Aletha Adu

WhatsApp messages shows brazen No10 lockdown party planning to avoid cameras

Hours after Boris Johnson held a crucial Downing Street press conference during the first lockdown, one of his closest aides boasted that they had "got away with" their BYOB party.

In her highly anticipated report, Whitehall ethics investigator Sue Gray has demanded Boris Johnson "bears responsibility" for the culture that enabled rowdy behaviour to take place during lockdown parties across Downing Street.

The report shows insiders - most often ex-No10 Director of Communications Lee Cain - were worried about the gatherings.

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