Cheers! Boris left No10 bash...to call the Queen

THE infamous Downing Street garden knees-up in May 2020 has just taken a new twist, thanks to a reply to a Freedom of Information request.

Boris Johnson has already apologised for the impromptu bring-your-own-bottle event, pictured, to which his principal private secretary invited guests to ‘make the most of the lovely weather’ – at a time when the rest of us were ordered to stay indoors to save lives.

The PM said he had gone into the garden ‘just after 6 o’clock […] before going back into my office 25 minutes later to continue working’.

No10 officials have now disclosed that Johnson went straight from the knees-up to have a 28-minute phone call with the Queen, beginning at 18.30.

Did he, one wonders, tell Her Majesty of the excellent wine and cheese he had just enjoyed with Carrie Antoinette? As for what happened after the call, it’s for the police to find out because No10 has refused to disclose further details of the PM’s diary that day.

Despite admitting there is a ‘general public interest’ in doing so, officials claim the information would compromise the ‘safe space’ in which Johnson’s private office manages his work ‘without external interference and distraction’.

To me, it sounds like the (BYOB) distractions were actually coming from inside

that office.