Sue Gray: Failure of leadership over Downing Street lockdown parties
31 Jan 2022
BBC News
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Boris Johnson accepts the findings, as report reveals 12 lockdown events are being probed by police.
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She adds that the "excessive consumption of alcohol is not appropriate in a professional workplace at any time", likely to be a reference to reports of drunken behaviour in the Number 10 garden and staff filling a suitcase with bottles of wine, and recommends a "robust" policy on alcohol consumption.