Indoor PM birthday event was held during lockdown, says No 10
Downing Street has admitted that staff gathered inside No 10 to celebrate Boris Johnson's birthday when the first Covid lockdown was still in place.up to 30 people attended the June 2020 event, sang Happy Birthday and were served cake.
But a No 10 spokesperson said: "This is totally untrue. In line with the rules at the time the prime minister hosted a small number of family members outside that evening." A source told the BBC that the prime minister's then fiancée, Carrie Symonds, had organised the cake served in the Cabinet Room and arrived at the event with Lulu Lytle, the interior designer who carried out a revamp of the couple's Downing Street flat.
The BBC has learned that Sue Gray, the senior civil servant compiling a report into gatherings on government premises during Covid restrictions, already knew about the 19 June event.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: "This is yet more evidence that we have got a prime minister who believes that the rules that he made don't apply to him.
She added it was "completely sickening" that No 10 staff had gathered indoors to eat cake for the PM's birthday, saying: "While dozens sang Happy Birthday to him, families couldn't even sing in memory at their loved ones' funerals."
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