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‘I feel sick’: NHS worker ‘incandescent’ with rage at Downing Street party

A frontline healthcare worker, whose mother died after catching Covid in hospital, said she feels "taken for a mug".

Henry Goodwin by Henry Goodwin
2021-12-08 10:35
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An NHS England staffer has said she is “incandescent” with anger at a video of Boris Johnson’s senior aides joking about a Downing Street Christmas party just days after an alleged rule-breaking festive gathering.

The prime minister’s then-press secretary Allegra Stratton and adviser Ed Oldfield, along with other aides, were filmed joking about a “fictional” party in December 2020.

A frontline healthcare worker, who wished to remain anonymous, said she was working with Covid-19 patients that month, when her mother was admitted to her hospital following a fall.

Due to health protocols the woman was unable to visit her mother, who caught Covid-19 in the hospital and later died from bacterial pneumonia.

‘Appalling behaviour’

“To say I’m angry… I’m incandescent. It’s the disrespect, it’s the one rule for us and another rule for them, that’s what’s the worst,” the NHS worker said.

“I see Allegra Stratton laughing up there and I feel sick, I feel disrespected, (like) I’ve been taken for a mug.

“I can’t put enough words together right now as to how appalling that behaviour is. It should have consequences.”

EXCLUSIVE: Video obtained by ITV News shows Downing Street staff joking about a Christmas party on 18th December last year.

No 10 has spent the past week denying any rules were broken. This new evidence calls that into question. pic.twitter.com/nKYK0tG0dQ

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) December 7, 2021

‘People have to be sacked’

Downing Street again insisted on Tuesday there was no Christmas party and coronavirus rules had been followed at all times.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, however, has called on Johnson to “come clean and apologise”, adding that for aides “to lie and to laugh about those lies is shameful”.

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The healthcare worker repeated the call for clarity, saying: “If it’s proven to be a cover-up, there have to be some actual consequences – people will have to be sacked.

“I don’t think ministers and MPs should be able to go on TV and say ‘there was no party’ then later say ‘it was within the rules’ when London had tier three restrictions – and there be no consequences.

“You have to hold the country’s trust if you’re in a position of authority.”

Related: Piers Morgan: Boris is ‘toast’ after leaked Christmas party video

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