A reflection of David Bailey’s portrait of the Queen watches over No 10, which held parties on the eve of Prince Philip’s funeralBoris Johnson has been warned by cabinet ministers that he is in the “last chance saloon” after Downing Street was forced to apologise to the Queen over new allegations of lockdown parties. Dozens of aides and officials were at two drunken parties in No 10 the night before the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April last year, when the Queen was forced to sit alone. SponsoredThe Times has been told that Sue Gray, a senior civil servant who is overseeing an investigation into the parties, felt “completely blindsided” by the revelations. She is concerned that Downing Street staff are deliberately concealing information about parties held at No 10. Cabinet ministers who publicly backed Johnson after his apology on Wednesday said that it was

Source: The Times January 15, 2022 00:09 UTC