Viral video embarrasses Zahawi as police to begin contacting No 10 lockdown partygoers
"Will the Cabinet Ministers defending the PM never learn!"
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British politician and writer serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since July 2019. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 2016-2018 and Mayor of London 2008-2016. Johnson has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015 and was previously MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008. He has been described as adhering to the ideology of one-nation and national conservatism.
"Will the Cabinet Ministers defending the PM never learn!"
The requirement for people testing positive to self-isolate could be scrapped in two weeks, Johnson told MPs.
The picture, obtained by The Mirror, shows the PM with an open bottle of Champagne at a Number 10 Christmas party.
Sir Keir challenged Johnson to "stand up to his chancellor" over the cost-of-living crisis.
Scotland Yard is facing calls to expand its investigation into alleged Covid breaches in No 10 after the Mirror published the image.
"It is becoming increasingly obvious that politically there is not much left of the time-honoured 'British Empire'", they said.
"When a regime has been in power too long.... you can rely on the leaders of that regime to act solely in the interests of self-preservation, and not in the interests of the electorate."
"The nose isn't long enough", one person responded after pictures made the rounds on social media.
John Armitage said he finds "the lack of honour" in modern politics "distressing" - and revealed he donated to Labour last year.
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