‘Not a celebration’: UK says of image of PM Johnson at lockdown gathering

{A photograph} displaying British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and greater than a dozen different folks ingesting wine within the backyard of his Downing Road residence throughout a lockdown final yr doesn’t present a celebration, his deputy mentioned on Monday.

The image, printed by the Guardian, exhibits Johnson along with his spouse Carrie, who seems to be holding their new child son, and two different folks at a desk on a terrace within the Downing Road backyard with cheese and wine.

“Downing Road use that backyard as a place of business,” Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab advised Instances Radio. “That’s not towards the laws.”

“I genuinely don’t suppose it will get categorized as a celebration,” Raab mentioned. “I don’t suppose it was a celebration.”

(Reuters)