"As far as they were concerned, it was one rule for them and another for everyone else."
This is what the Tory rule-breakers in Number 10 still don’t get. He added: "People followed the rules at great personal pain and sacrifice. Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, also condemns the footage and actions of those in it. To think of these people who were celebrating, just oblivious to what was going on around them and putting other people's lives in danger, which is, you know, one of the worst aspects of this because we all complied with the rules." He went on: "It's like a parallel universe and to be honest, it's difficult to comprehend how they can act in such a care-free manner, given what the rest of the country was going through. Read more: First Partygate video exposes Tories drinking, dancing and laughing at Covid rules It's not a huge surprise given we know what was happening, but the imagery of it was pretty powerful, and completely at odds with what the rest of the country and certainly we as bereaved families and our loved ones were going through at the time." Today, a spokesperson for the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign hit out at the video - which showed Tory activists living in 'a parallel universe'.Īmos Waldman, who lost his grandmother in April 2020, told Times Radio: " I was appalled and sickened by the video. It has led to an apology being issued by Cabinet Minister Michael Gove, who dubbed the footage as 'indefensible' while the rest of London was subject to strict barring rules on socialising indoors. The previously unseen footage shows staff dancing and mocking pandemic-era laws at the Conservative Campaign HQ in the capital.
A brand-new Partygate video exposed by The Mirror, showing a number of Tories at a lockdown rule-bending Christmas do during the height of the Coronavirus pandemic has 'appalled and sickened' those who lost family members and friends during the pandemic.
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