{"id":1133927,"date":"2021-12-20T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T17:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1133927"},"modified":"2021-12-20T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T17:04:41","slug":"boris-johnson-accused-of-breaking-lockdown-again-with-alleged-wine-and-cheese-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boris-johnson-accused-of-breaking-lockdown-again-with-alleged-wine-and-cheese-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson Accused of Breaking Lockdown Again with Alleged Wine and Cheese Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fboris-johnson-accused-of-breaking-lockdown-again-with-alleged-wine-and-cheese-party%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1133927&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236588881-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">In another emerging \u2018rules for thee, but not for me\u2019 scandal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been accused of breaking coronavirus restrictions for allegedly hosting a cheese and wine party while the rest of the country was locked down.<\/p>\n<p>A photo has emerged, allegedly from May of last year appearing to show Mr Johnson enjoying cheese and wine with his then-girlfriend, now wife, Carrie Johnson n\u00e9e Symonds and at least 17 staffers on the terrace at Number 10 Downing Street while the rest of the country was in lockdown, <em>The Guardian<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/dec\/19\/boris-johnson-and-staff-pictured-with-wine-in-downing-street-garden-in-may-2020?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;CMP=twt_gu&amp;utm_medium&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1639939425\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Downing Street has insisted that the event depicted in the photo was not a party and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-59722081\">instead<\/a> was a \u201cwork meeting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab defended the gathering, saying on Monday: \u201cIf you think how hard [people in Downing Street] are working under the pressure of the week, they sometimes have a drink, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happening there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pro-lockdown governing party of Scotland, the Scottish National Party (SNP), have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/politics\/boris-johnson-sleaze-wine-party-25739893\">branded<\/a> the event a&nbsp;\u201csleaze and wine\u201d party and called again for an investigation into the government\u2019s alleged multiple breaches of lockdown rules.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The latest leak comes just over a week after former Vaccine Minister&nbsp;Nazhim Zahawi insisted that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/08\/boris-denies-2020-lockdown-breaking-christmas-party-despite-video-leak-of-no-10-staff-joking-about-it\/\">Christmas quiz<\/a>&nbsp;hosted by Mr Johnson last December \u2014 when work Christmas parties were banned \u2014 was not in fact a party as there was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/covid-19-boris-johnson-accused-of-culture-of-disregard-for-coronavirus-rules-as-photo-of-downing-street-quiz-emerges-12493560\">no alcohol<\/a>\u201d at the event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.2682119205298\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Downing Street staff and Boris Johnson pictured drinking wine in the No 10 garden last May when the rest of the country was limited to meeting just one other person socially outdoors. <\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@guardian<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Am9Z0qUxo1\">https:\/\/t.co\/Am9Z0qUxo1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T7VTL2nSwh\">pic.twitter.com\/T7VTL2nSwh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulBrandITV\/status\/1472646544524460040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When the photo was said to have been taken, government lockdown rules only permitted two people from different households were to mix socially, and even then only when outdoors and two metres apart. The COVID guidelines also stated that&nbsp;in-person workplace meetings should only take place if \u201cabsolutely necessary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On the 22nd of March 2020 \u2014 just under two months prior to the cheese and wine event \u2014 Mr Johnson had also threatened to impose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-51998559\">\u201ctougher measures\u201d<\/a> on British citizens if they did not follow social distancing guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month that the cheese and wine party is said to have taken place, Breitbart\u2019s James Delingpole and Kurt Zindulka were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/05\/16\/watch-delingpole-warned-by-police-at-the-anti-lockdown-rally\/\">threatened<\/a> by police with fines and arrest for covering an anti-lockdown protest in London\u2019s Hyde Park, despite journalists being exempt from lockdown restrictions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Attendees of the protest were&nbsp;threatened with arrest and given tickets for supposed offences such as distributing stickers, holding placards, and \u201cstaying here for longer than 45 minutes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s claim that the gathering was a work meeting is questionable in light of the attendance of Carrie Symonds,&nbsp;Boris Johnson\u2019s then-partner, now wife. Symonds has been the subject of increased public scrutiny after Britain\u2019s oldest Conservative think tank, the Bow Group, called for a judicial review into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/02\/22\/bow-group-calls-for-judicial-review-of-power-wielded-prime-minsters-fiancee\/\">her influence<\/a> over the government following the appointments of Symonds\u2019 political allies to senior government roles and the removal of her political rivals, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/10\/bojos-ex-chief-advisor-says-his-liberal-wife-wants-to-control-the-country-via-him\/\">Dominic Cummings<\/a>, from the government.<\/p>\n<p>Number 10 has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/boris-johnson-carrie-symonds-bow-group-b1805604.html\">denied<\/a> that Ms Symonds has any role in governing the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0391061452514\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch: \u2018Shove Your New World Order Up Your *ss!\u2019 \u2014 London Erupts in Protest Against Lockdown <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fXW9rIjHy8\">https:\/\/t.co\/fXW9rIjHy8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1320741222214856705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking to Breitbart London about the government\u2019s latest scandal, research fellow at the Bow Group,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Loknayn\">Benjamin Loughnane<\/a>&nbsp;commented:\u201dWhilst people sat in cells, received criminal records, and were fined ruinous sums [for breaking COVID restrictions], the people making the rules were breaking them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course it is ridiculous that it\u2019s a national scandal that the prime minister enjoyed a drink with his staff after a long day\u2019s work, but it\u2019s a scandal only because they made it so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should never be weird to sit in the garden in summer with a bottle of wine, but they made even the most normal, harmless, and everyday activities punishable in the extreme\u2026 Hypocrisy is not a strong enough word.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another emerging \u2018rules for thee, but not for me\u2019 scandal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been accused of breaking coronavirus restrictions for allegedly hosting a cheese and wine party &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}