ITV has an e-mail of another party on May 20th 2020 when the country was in full lockdown and you couldn't meet more than one person outside:
https://www.itv.com/news/2022-01-10/...ht-of-lockdown
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Downing Street staff were invited to a drinks party in the Number 10 garden during the height of nationwide lockdown to "make the most of the lovely weather".
An email shared exclusively with ITV News provides the first evidence of a party on May 20, 2020, when the rest of the country was banned from meeting more than one other person outdoors.
The email was sent by the Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary Martin Reynolds to over a hundred employees in Number 10, including the Prime Minister's advisors, speechwriters and door staff.
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ITV also claims the PM was there meaning it's the first time he is directly implicated in breaking his own rules:
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ITV News understands around 40 staff gathered in the garden that evening, eating picnic food and drinking. Crucially, they included the Prime Minister and his wife Carrie Johnson.
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