The mood in Downing Street on Tuesday was “like a morgue”. The night before, ITV News had obtained an email from Boris Johnson’s principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds, inviting staff to “bring your own booze” to a party in the No 10 garden on May 20, 2020, at the height of the first lockdown.
A glance at the prime minister’s diary confirmed — as The Sunday Times reported a week ago — that Johnson and his wife Carrie had attended the gathering, where 40 people drank the night away.
Those arriving to discuss the situation wondered whether they were embarking on preparations for a political funeral. What they did not realise was that it might be theirs.
Johnson did not rant but made it clear
