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A party bag with some cake and a toy in it maybe?

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As I said earlier a room with a cake whatever for 10 mins is a different thing to literally sending out invites. Both against the rules but few people think that people who are already at work doing something like that is as bad as the other parties. I maintain Johnson likely would have been fine if the cake was the only story.

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Agreed. Sunak's story is far more convincing than that of Johnson's decorator moving seamlessly around probably the most secure building in the country. Given the frequency of parties at No. 10, it would seem hard for Sunak to avoid at least one of them!

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He went for a reason, possibly not the party.

Source the Express article you linked to.

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Exactly. A business meeting, not a party.

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I prefaced my comment about there being no case by the words ‘from what we know’. There is nothing contradictory about my position on this.

I suspect very much there is nothing that will prove BJ’s complicity with breaking of Covid rules, but I will not be absolutely sure until we know the police verdict and we see Sue Gray’s report. I’ve not said anything other than that we should reserve judgement.

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It’s curious how this thread has basically gone exactly the same way as the future of tv thread.

Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
 

Johnson's defenders, including Rees-Mogg on Newsnight, are saying a new leader requires a General Election. I can't believe any Tory MPs are buying that.

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When you're a clown almost everytime you show up it's a party, perhaps he should use that as his defence, it's better than he didn't realise

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Curious or inevitable

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At this "surprise" work meeting/party/birthday party/get-together with cake and M&S snacks, you would have thought the person in charge of the country (and his Chancellor of the Exchequer) who was telling everyone else not to get together for work meetings/parties/birthday parties/get-togethers that weren’t necessary, might have had the sense to say "sorry, guys & gals, it’s a lovely thought, but this is actually against the rules we told everyone else to follow, so let’s just stop what’s happening, OK?".

The cake, the surprise, the 10 minutes, the Interior Decorator in the Cabinet Room are all just gaslighting and distractions - they set the rules, they reminded us nearly every day of what the rules were, they had people fined throughout this period for breaking the rules.

There are no excuses.

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Really?

At their own admission, Carrie gathered staff (and Lulu Lytle) to the Cabinet Room for a surprise before the meeting that Sunak was attending - there was no purpose for this pre-meeting except to surprise Johnson with a cake and to sing "Happy Birthday"…

What are you going to say next - he was ambushed by a cake?

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Keeping everyone on their toes!
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1486085432953737222

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The two phrases in bold contradict each other, Old Boy.

You can't simultaneously say there's no case whilst at the same time reserving judgment. :erm:

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Yeah, no more excuses to have further lockdown for essentially what was a bad form of Pneumonia.

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As I said 'from what we know', which basically accepts that more information may be forthcoming that changes things, there is no contradiction.

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Looks like No. 10 doesn't have the report yet. Truss mentioned national security may mean some parts are redacted.
https://news.sky.com/story/politics-...ghani-12514080

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Were there Russians ambushing him with cakes?

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Except when you posted this yesterday evening..

Even includes "from what we know" ;)