A bombshell email emerged tonight showing more than 100 No10 staff were invited to a ‘bring your own booze’ drinks party in the first lockdown.
The message suggested they should "make the most of the lovely weather" - even though the rest of the country was banned from meeting more than one person outdoors.
Witnesses said about 40 staff attended on 20 May 2020, including Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie - and there were long tables laden with drink, crisps, sausage rolls and other picnic food.
Outdoor gatherings were banned in England at the time under Covid rules.
Boris Johnson ’s Principal Private Secretary Martin Reynolds faces a fight for his job after the May 2020 email was revealed by ITV News.
And sources now expect Whitehall's parties investigator Sue Gray will have to interview the Prime Minister himself - as he was said to have been present at four of the events she is looking into.
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