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Cryptocurrency News Articles
Boris Johnson says he 'saw no cake' at 'partygate' birthday gathering in new memoir extract
Sep 28, 2024 at 07:40 am
The former prime minister said he did not see or eat any cake at an event on June 19 2020, according to an extract from his memoir published in the Daily Mail.
Boris Johnson has claimed he did not see or eat any cake at the “partygate” birthday gathering in his honour at Downing Street during lockdown.
In an extract from his memoir published in the Daily Mail, Mr Johnson said it “never occurred” to him or then-chancellor Rishi Sunak that the June 19 2020 event was “in some way against the rules”.
The former prime minister said he stood briefly at his place in the Cabinet Room while Mr Sunak and “assorted members of staff” said happy birthday.
“I saw no cake. I ate no blooming cake,” Mr Johnson wrote.
“If this was a party, it was the feeblest event in the history of human festivity.
“I had only just got over Covid. I did not sing. I did not dance.”
Downing Street previously admitted staff “gathered briefly” in the Cabinet Room for what was reportedly a surprise get-together for Mr Johnson organised by his now-wife Carrie.
An ally of the former prime minister, Conor Burns, said Mr Johnson was “ambushed with a cake” at the event.
The law at the time banned two or more people from different households being indoors at the same time.
Mr Johnson became the first prime minister to receive a criminal penalty while in office, over partygate, when he, his wife and Mr Sunak received £50 fixed-penalty notices from Scotland Yard for attending the bash.
An investigation by former senior civil servant Sue Gray said Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak were not aware of the event on June 19 2020 in advance, and that “those attending consumed food and drink, and some drank alcohol”.
No 10 denied reports that, later the same evening, family and friends were hosted upstairs to celebrate the occasion.
Elsewhere in the memoir, Mr Johnson wrote that he was “amazed” at reports he had been dancing drunkenly at partygate events and that “nothing of the kind actually happened”, according to the newspaper.
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