It’s outdoors of the scope of this web site to find out whether or not newspaper claims that 10 Downing Road held a booze-fuelled Christmas get together that “broke Covid lockdown guidelines” in December final 12 months are correct or not.

However what’s fascinating to me is that after once more video has leaked from contained in the Authorities that has put it in scorching water.

ITV Information has obtained Downing Road footage from December 22 final 12 months (a number of days after the alleged lockdown-breaking get together).

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The footage reveals Downing Road workers rehearsing a TV press convention – with advisers to Prime Minister Boris Johnson posing tough questions in regards to the get together that had simply taken place, whereas posing because the press.

Johnson’s then spokesperson Allegra Stratton clearly finds it very tough to discover a strategy to spin the controversial get together in a approach that the actual media may discover acceptable…

Whether or not you care about whether or not Downing Road broke Covid lockdown guidelines a 12 months in the past or not may rely on whether or not you already know anybody who died from Covid, or if you weren’t in a position to meet up with family members or attend a celebration, due to the principles imposed by the Authorities.

I’m probably not fascinated with your opinions on that. What I’m is who had entry to this (presumably confidential) CCTV footage of a press convention rehearsal, after which selected to leak it to ITV Information.

It feels to me just like the UK Authorities may once more have somebody in its midst who finds its behaviour hypocritical, and desires for it to be uncovered.

And that sounds to me like a safety situation, whichever facet of the political fence you sit on, and no matter get together may be in energy.

And wouldn’t you might have thought safety would have been tightened up after the mysterious leak of a furtive snog in CCTV footage signalled the top of Well being Minister Matt Hancock’s profession?

As soon as once more, it appears a whistleblower contained in the UK Authorities has been in a position to go video footage onto the media that casts the-powers-that-be in a foul mild.

You may assume that it’s justified. Certainly, I feel it’s justified. However it shouldn’t be one thing that’s simple to do.

If it’s simple to leak delicate video footage from contained in the halls of energy then it might occur time and again, and perhaps subsequent time a breach might have extra severe penalties.

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