February 23, 2022
11:56 am
Prime Ministers Questions
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PMQs Live – BREAKING: Photo of PM at Christmas quiz emerges
PMQs Live – Labour asks if PM will refer ‘party’ to police
PM Boris Johnson has said it was “completely in error” to describe an image of him at a Christmas quiz as being a party.
The photo was published by the Daily Mirror newspaper, just as PMQs got under way.
Labour’s Fabian Hamilton said: “In the last few minutes a photo has emerged of the prime minister in Downing Street on 15 December, 2020, surrounded by alcohol, food and people wearing tinsel.
“It looks a lot like one of the Christmas parties he told us never happened.”
He asked the PM if he would be “referring this party to the police as it is not one of the ones currently being investigated?”
PM Boris Johnson said: “In what he has just said, I’m afraid he is completely in error.”
BREAKING: Photo of PM at Christmas quiz emerges
BBC News says Soon after PMQs started the Daily Mirror tweeted a photograph that it says shows Boris Johnson at a No 10 “virtual” Christmas quiz with an open bottle of champagne.
The newspaper says there are now fresh calls for a police investigation of this event, which it says took place on 15 December 2020.
At the time London was under Tier 2 regulations banning any social mixing between two or more people from different households.
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New Partygate image shows Boris Johnson and open bottle of bubbly at No 10 Xmas quizhttps://t.co/JARzd4MWsr pic.twitter.com/kNVgs6OVVE
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) February 9, 2022
