A senior adviser to Boris Johnson has resigned after the prime minister said he was “sickened and furious” about leaked video showing her laughing about a Christmas party held in No 10 during coronavirus restrictions. Allegra Stratton, Johnson’s spokeswoman on the Cop26 climate conference, offered her “profound” apologies in a tearful statement today for the comments she made during a mock press conference after the party in December last year. Sponsored“The British people have made immense sacrifices in the battle against Covid-19,” she said outside her home in north London. “I now fear that my comments in the leaked video have become a distraction from that fight. My remarks seemed to make light of the rules, rules that people were doing everything to obey.

Source: The Times December 09, 2021 05:21 UTC