Exchange between Ed Oldfield and Allegra Stratton took place last December days after alleged party took place
Downing Street’s insistence that staff did not hold a Christmas party in lockdown last December will come under renewed scrutiny after TV footage emerged showing senior No 10 officials joking on camera about such an event days later.
In the video, an adviser to Boris Johnson, Ed Oldfield, is seen joking with Allegra Stratton, the prime minister’s then press secretary, about “a Downing Street Christmas party on Friday night”.
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