Boris Johnson's Wine And Cheese Gathering Not A Party, Says UK Deputy PM
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A photograph surfaced showing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and more than a dozen other people with wine and cheese in the garden of his Downing Street residence during the UK's Covid lockdown last year.
A photograph of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and more than a dozen other people drinking wine in the garden of his Downing Street residence during a lockdown last year does not show a party, his deputy said on Monday.
The picture, published by the Guardian, shows Johnson with his wife Carrie, who appears to be holding their newborn son, and two other people at a table on a terrace in the Downing Street garden with cheese and wine.
Nearby is another table of four other people, and a short distance away are a larger group standing on the grass around a table with bottles of wine.
"Downing Street use that garden as a place of work," Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab told Times Radio. "That's not against the regulations."
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