Remember when Boris Johnson slammed Rita Ora's bday dinner six months after the 'BYOB party'...? Well, it's very much screaming 'this you?' to us... Who was in the wrong here? 🤔
that followed when it emerged that she had held a birthday dinner at a restaurant in Notting Hill when people weren’t permitted to meet with others outside their household indoors.
The PM previously sought to avoid confirming his presence at any gathering but was forced to on Wednesday following the emergence of written evidence a ‘BYOB’ party was organised in the Downing Street garden in May 2020, several months before Rita’s dinner. However, at the time of Rita’s party in 2020, a No 10 spokesperson told reporters ‘it’s important everybody in society sets an example by following the rules’.It’s important everybody in society sets an example by following the rules…that is for every member of the public, including celebrities
The spokesperson added that ‘the prime minister has been clear of the need for everybody across the country to continue to abide by the rules in order to reduce the transmission of the virus…’ A lawyer for the police at a local council hearing shortly afterwards branded the singer ‘selfish’ and referred to the event as ‘one of the most egregious and notorious’ breaches of lockdown.
Rita previously explained: ‘It was a spur of the moment decision made with the misguided view that we were coming out of lockdown and this would be OK… I’m deeply sorry for breaking the rules and in turn understand that this puts people at risk.
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