Boris Johnson has accepted “full responsibility” for a drinking and lawbreaking culture in Downing Street during the Covid pandemic, after senior official Sue Gray published a scathing verdict on the partygate affair.
Gray’s 37-page report — plus photographs — was an indictment of behaviour in 10 Downing Street in the middle of a national crisis, when the rest of the country was observing Covid lockdowns.
It spoke of Downing Street staff drinking excessively into the early hours and gave instances of vomiting, fighting and spilling red wine on walls and “multiple examples of a lack of respect and poor treatment of security and cleaning staff”.