UK leader orders probe amid anger over staff lockdown party

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologized and ordered an inquiry after a leaked video showed senior members of his staff joking about holding a lockdown-breaching Christmas party

LONDON -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday ordered an inquiry and said he was “furious” after a leaked video showed senior members of his staff joking about holding a lockdown-breaching Christmas party.

The video has poured fuel on allegations that government officials flouted coronavirus rules they imposed on everyone else.

Johnson said that “I understand and share the anger up and down the country” at staff seeming to make light of lockdown rules.

“I was also furious to see that clip," Johnson told lawmakers in the House of Commons. "I apologize unreservedly for the offense that it has caused up and down the country and I apologize for the impression it gives.”