Ed Miliband was on Sky News today giving his take on the latest revelations about Boris Johnson’s Downing Street garden party at the height of lockdown in May 2020.
According to an email obtained by ITV News, more than 100 staff were invited to a drinks party in the No 10 garden to “make the most of the lovely weather”.
Staff were told to ‘bring your own booze!’ with both the prime minister and his wife said to be in attendance.
Johnson, for his part, is refusing to comment, hiding behind – sorry – pointing people towards the on-going inquiry into the alleged rule-breaking parties headed by civil servant Sue Gray.
Boris Johnson’s multiple denials over lockdown parties.
The prime minister is facing calls to come to the Commons to explain how he came to attend a lockdown-busting “bring your own booze” party in the Downing Street garden on 20 May 2020.
Read more: https://t.co/FjsHnNqiya pic.twitter.com/cIBoyXI8ou
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 11, 2022
Here are our favourite things people said about that.
Who the fuck is Sue Gray? Next time
My wife asks me why I got in from the pub covered in sick at 3am I’m gonna let her know that Sue Gray is looking into it.— Rob Beckett (@robbeckettcomic) January 11, 2022
have I taken the bins out? all I can say is that I have asked Sue Gray to investigate
— Henry Mance (@henrymance) January 11, 2022
It might be quicker if Sue Gray worked out which days there wasn’t a party in Downing St attended by Boris Johnson in 2020.
— Mike Buckley (@mdbuckley) January 11, 2022
But the most powerful comment on the whole thing might have been from former Labour leader Miliband.
It really is worth watching in full, and was so good it had people who don’t like Ed Miliband cheering.
You’ll want the sound on for this one
Labour’s @Ed_Miliband is “lost for words” at the “arrogance” of @BorisJohnson #partygate
#KayBurley FM pic.twitter.com/ieQgsjXuAv
— Kay Burley (@KayBurley) January 11, 2022
Nailed it.
The crystal clear incredulity that is making the ordinarily articulate @Ed_Miliband struggle for words on Sky News really sums up how I feel about this party. The arrogance; the contempt; the deceit – and now seemingly hiding behind Sue Gray, hoping it will all go away. Cowards.
— James Mitchinson (@JayMitchinson) January 11, 2022
If only he knew how to eat a bacon sandwich the UK would be in a much better place.
— Diarmaid Mac Aonghusa
(@diarmaidm) January 11, 2022
Is it too late to vote for chaos with Ed Miliband?
— Barnaby Edwards (@BarnabyEdwards) January 10, 2022
"I wanted to be Prime Minister, I didn't succeed, but I couldn't have imagined presiding over a culture of such rule breaking and such arrogance" @Ed_Miliband nails it 👏👏👏 https://t.co/YmQd9pphzv
— Julia Suzanne 🕷️🍷🌹🇬🇧 (@juliasuzanne76) January 11, 2022
And because he wasn’t just on Sky News, here’s Miliband on LBC, also today.
‘If I went to a party, I know I went. I don’t need Sue Gray to tell me I went!’
A furious Ed Miliband says he could not believe the news of a ‘bring your own drinks’ Downing Street branding it a ‘rotten culture.’@NickFerrariLBC | @Ed_Miliband pic.twitter.com/eOU50t6467
— LBC (@LBC) January 11, 2022
Blistering stuff.
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The PM may have attended a packed BYOB party in No. 10’s garden at the height of lockdown
Source Twitter @KayBurley
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