Boris – always beyond the law?

I’M beginning to feel personally affronted I wasn’t invited to a Number 10 drinks party.

It seems half the world was there at one or other of the “‘another rule for us’ jamborees”, but yet little old me was snubbed.

To be fair, I’d rather have had a full mouth of fillings done than hang out with that lot, but it’s still nice to be asked, isn’t it?

I think I’d have had to find an excuse not to go, perhaps something along the lines of “As a habit, I prefer not to break the law, but thanks.”

Unless you have a giant tangled spider diagram of who was at which Downing Street shindig when, similar to those World Cup wall charts you get free in the papers, you’d be forgiven for losing track.

So for your benefit, the latest party, on May 20, takes the total tally that we know about so far to nine.

But it’s the latest “bring your own booze” email, sent by the Prime Minister’s principal private secretary, that’s by far the most problematic for the Government to date.

If you suspend reality and voluntarily pull wool over your own eyes, you could, if you really wanted to, kid yourself that some of the other parties were within the rules.

It’s beyond me why anyone would want to do this, but it is theoretically at least possible, in much the same way that aliens might have already landed, and be living among us in Hemel Hempstead.

But there is no getting around the latest email. There is no explaining it away. He’s been caught as red-handed as can be.

“After what has been an incredibly busy period it would be nice to make the most of the lovely weather and have some socially distanced drinks in the No10 garden this evening.

“Please join us from 6pm and bring your own booze!”

This, let’s not forget, was at a time that gatherings, including funerals, were not allowed.

People were permitted to meet one person from outside their household. Schools were closed. Police were patrolling parks.

So the question has to be, with such a flagrant and obvious breaking of the law, how the prime minister survives this.

It seems highly unlikely that he’ll walk, but if his party doesn’t remove him from office then they are tacitly accepting that their leader openly breaking the law is perfectly fine.

I wonder what the aliens of Hemel Hempstead make of our elected officials.