Piers Morgan has known as for Boris Johnson’s resignation, amid allegations the prime minister attended a ‘lockdown occasion’ at Downing Avenue final yr.
This week a leaked e mail ‘confirmed 100 Downing Avenue employees have been invited’ to a celebration allegedly held within the first lockdown.
It’s since been confirmed police are involved with the Cupboard Workplace amid the claims, with round 40 employees mentioned to have attended the gathering on Might 20, 2020 to eat picnic meals and have drinks – together with Mr Johnson and his spouse Carrie Johnson – when Brits have been banned from assembly a couple of different particular person outside.
Former Good Morning Britain host Piers, who spent his last yr on the ITV breakfast desk holding ministers to account over the Covid pandemic, was left seething on the allegations as he known as out the ‘hypocrisy’ of the PM.
In response to the e-mail, Piers wrote on Twitter: ‘If @BorisJohnson attended this, he ought to resign.’
Sharing a photograph taken of himself along with his son Spencer, as they stood far aside throughout a stroll, on the identical day of the alleged lockdown occasion, Piers was clearly raging on the newest studies.
He wrote: ‘On the day (May20, 2020) that @BorisJohnson attended his No10 occasion the place 100 folks have been invited to ‘convey a bottle’, I met my eldest son for first time in 2 months, & we stayed this far aside, with out anybody else there, as a result of that was BORIS JOHNSON’S BLOODY RULE.’
The journalist added: ‘All of us have comparable tales, some clearly deeply distressing involving sick and dying family members. Britain’s Prime Minister separated households for months on finish, usually of their darkest hours, however secretly ignored all these guidelines himself to occasion.
‘Simply outrageous hypocrisy.’
The Prime Minister’s Principal Non-public Secretary Martin Reynolds is alleged to have despatched the e-mail which ‘inspired employees to benefit from the stunning climate’.
First seen by ITV, it reads: ‘Hello all, After what has been an extremely busy interval it could be good to benefit from the stunning climate and have some socially distanced drinks within the No10 backyard this night.
‘Please be a part of us from 6pm and produce your individual booze!’
The PM’s former prime advisor Dominic Cummings first instructed such an occasion had taken place in a weblog put up on Friday.
He claimed he protested towards it, warning it could break Covid rules – however the occasion ‘positively occurred’ regardless.
The Met refused to analyze an alleged Authorities gathering on December 18, 2020, whereas the police watchdog later declined to analyze a criticism in regards to the power’s dealing with of the case.
Nonetheless, regarding the Might 2020 allegations, a spokesman for Scotland Yard mentioned: ‘The Metropolitan Police Service is conscious of widespread reporting referring to alleged breaches of the Well being Safety Laws at Downing Avenue on Might 20 2020 and is involved with the Cupboard Workplace.’
Downing Avenue mentioned they'd not be commenting on the e-mail as a result of Sue Grey inquiry, with the senior civil servant at present investigating events allegedly held by the Authorities as hundreds of thousands within the UK poured all their efforts into stopping Covid spreading.
Ms Grey took over the investigation from Cupboard Secretary Simon Case in December after claims he knew of at the very least one gathering.
Requested on Monday if he and his spouse attended the Might 20 occasion, Mr Johnson replied: ‘All that, as you realize, is the topic of a correct investigation by Sue Grey’.
On immediately’s GMB, Richard Madeley branded the most recent alleged occasion an ‘insult’ whereas calling on Mr Johnson to finish the ‘nonsense’.
He mentioned: ‘I don’t find out about all of you however my jaw is completely on the ground.
‘How for much longer is that this nonsense going to go on for?
‘How rather more proof do we have to current to the Prime Minister to inform him and present him that he’s been breaking the foundations?’
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