Three big problems for Boris Johnson after leaked Christmas party video

Tories fear public won’t listen to Covid instructions from a government that refuses to follow its own rules

Allegra Stratton
Allegra Stratton appeared in the video leaked to ITV News

The fallout for Downing Street over reports that it held a Christmas party during lockdown last year went from bad to worse last night as a video emerged of senior No. 10 staff joking about a Christmas bash.

The clip, which was recorded four days after the alleged 18 December party, shows the then No. 10 spokeswoman Allegra Stratton practising for a press briefing, fielding questions from her colleagues acting as journalists.

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