Michael Gove has apologised for a ‘terrible’ video appearing to show Tory officials partying during lockdown.
In the video, two party-goers twirl in front of a sign saying, ‘Please keep your distance,’ before knocking into a buffet table full of food and drink.
Of Bailey and his campaign staffers, the levelling up secretary said ‘they had obviously behaved in a way which is unacceptable’. At the time, London’s police force said that despite a widely-published photograph seemingly showing Bailey among a crowd of drink-holding, Christmas jumper-wearing revellers, there was not enough evidence to ‘disprove the version of events provided by attendees’.Gove said he ‘doesn’t know’ if the video footage was available to Tory bosses or police investigators.
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