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Watch: Reactions as Allegra Stratton once ‘ambushed’ PM with a cake

"The story has reached a full circle - or square, as that cake clearly is..."

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2022-01-29 11:58
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The minister who claimed Boris Johnson was โ€œambushed with a cakeโ€ at a birthday gathering during coronavirus restrictions has now said there was no cake and therefore the event was simply a meeting. Well one person who can’t say they didn’t is Allegra Stratton

Northern Ireland minister Conor Burns defended the Prime Minister amid reports his wife Carrie had organised a surprise birthday get together on June 19, 2020, in the Cabinet room which 30 people attended.

He told Channel 4 News earlier this week: โ€œIt was not a premeditated, organised party in that sense, that the Prime Minister himself decided to have.

โ€œAs far as I can see, he was, in a sense, ambushed with a cake.โ€

But Mr Burns โ€“ who was ridiculed on social media for the comment โ€“ has now backtracked, and No 10 said it could not confirm or deny the presence of a cake while senior official Sue Grayโ€™s investigation into the partygate saga engulfing Whitehall continues.

Mr Burns told The Telegraphโ€™s Chopperโ€™s Politics podcast: โ€œIโ€™m told under some authority, indeed from him, that there actually wasnโ€™t a cake.โ€

He told the podcast the line he gave to defend the PM was โ€œnot part of a strategyโ€ and was a โ€œlone operation, for which I have paid a priceโ€.

When asked what a birthday party without a cake is, he said: โ€œA meeting.โ€

Stratton

Allegra Stratton remember her?

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She was the Prime Ministerโ€™s spokeswoman, who resigned after the leaked clip emerged, offering โ€œprofound apologiesโ€ and saying she would โ€œregret those remarks for the rest of my daysโ€.

https://twitter.com/LloydHardy/status/1468365916920590344

Well that aside a clip of Boris Johnson being “ambushed” with a cake by Allegra Stratton during a TV interview back in 2016, on the Peston’s ITV politics show, has resurfaced on social media.

Robert Peston said to Johnson: “You were telling me earlier that you’re a bit peckish so we got something for you, Allegra’s got a little present – look at that!”

Stratton then walks into the shot and places a cake on Peston’s desk and said to the PM: “So Boris Johnson, you’ve always said that we can have our cake and eat it on the EU…”

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Following his comments on having cake and eating it @itvallegra offers @BorisJohnson a slice live on air #Peston pic.twitter.com/V0BB6h1NC5

— Peston (@itvpeston) December 4, 2016

#scenesfromtheadbreak @BorisJohnson with his cake and eating it. Oh, and with everyone else on the show #peston pic.twitter.com/DGG6YfR7Vi

— Allegra Stratton (@AllegraStratton) December 4, 2016

Reactions

1.

The irony of having in one @Peston clip: Allegra #Stratton providing cake for Boris #Johnson.

She resigned over #partygate. He is being investigated by the Police, and by Sue Gray, about it.

Will he also resign before he is pushed by his Tory MPs? https://t.co/soRmItI2Wi

— Graham Kings (@GrahamRKings) January 26, 2022

2.

Boris actually being ambushed with a cake by @Peston & itโ€™s only Allegra Stratton ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜‚pic.twitter.com/6m0nn2SBE9

— Kelly G ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ (@Kelly_G_X) January 26, 2022

3.

Literally everything that's wrong with politics in a 20 second clip ๐Ÿคฎ

— Col John Matrix (@Steve_BWFC) January 26, 2022

4.

This will be his defence. He was sitting & working when he was ambushed with a birthday cake.

— inthezone (@inthezoneuk) January 26, 2022

5.

pic.twitter.com/dWwH6uXksN

— steve donnelly (@stevedonnelly20) January 26, 2022

6.

Yay, story has reached a full circle – or square, as that cake clearly is…

— John Saleh Price (@johnsalehprice) January 26, 2022

Related: PM accused of body shaming after cake comment aimed at SNP MP

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