From the dancing couple to Carrie Johnson’s pal — who’s who in bombshell new partygate video?

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partygate? Footage of Tory staff drinking, dancing and mocking Covid laws at the height of the lockdown. The explosive, 35-second clip — the first ever video of that now-infamous Christmas party at the Conservative Party HQ— was exposed by The Mirror over the weekend and shows officials (including two named on Boris Johnson’s controversial resignation honours list last week) dressed up in Christmas jumpers, dancing and appearing to joke about pandemic restrictions at a time when indoor socialising was banned in December 2020 — and the same day then health-secretary Matt Hancock announced that London would enter tier 3 restrictions.

At one point in the footage, two dancers are seen twirling past a sign on a social distancing sign on the wall before colliding with a table full of buffet food, while another person can be heard laughing and saying: “As long as we don’t stream that we’re like, bending the rules. ” At least 24 people were reportedly in attendance at the so-called “Jingle and Mingle” bash, which saw 30 people invited and had been organised by the team behind the failed London mayoral bid of London Assembly member Shaun Bailey, who has since been given a peerage by Boris Johnson. “Sickening”, “indefensible” and “shameful” are among the criticisms of the footage by viewers including bereaved families of Covid victims, Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner and MPs including housing secretary Michael Gove, who called the behaviour in the video “terrible” when he apologised for his Tory colleagues’ yesterday. “Revellers openly mocked the rules the British people followed.

The Tories think it’s one rule for them and one rule for everyone else,” Rayner said of the clip. “Instead of forcing them to face the.