COLCHESTER Council’s Labour Group leader says reports of a Number 10 party during lockdown are “absolutely sickening”.
Adam Fox has now called on Colchester’s Conservatives to send a clear message of disapproval to their colleagues in Downing Street and demand an apology.
It follows allegations the Prime Minister’s principal private secretary Martin Reynolds sent out an invitation to 100 people to a bring your own bottle party in the Downing Street garden while lockdown measures were in place in May 2020.
Mr Fox said: “181 people in Colchester died from coronavirus in 2020.
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“Countless more lost special moments – missed funerals, weddings and crucial life events.
“Now it is clear while we suffered, while we all made huge sacrifices to follow the rules, Boris Johnson and his team were drinking and laughing away.
“Think back to what you were doing in May 2020, what you and your loved ones missed, what you sacrificed, what you lost.
“It is absolutely sickening.”
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