For two months, Boris Johnson’s government has been on the ropes after a series of horrible revelations about Tory parties during lockdown. As in, actual parties, with booze and food and socializing, all while Boris Johnson was telling the British people to avoid family gatherings and pubs and in-person socializing. At the start of the scandal, it was believed that people around the prime minister had thrown a few small parties in December 2020 (arguably one of the heights of the pandemic). Two months later, we now know that BoJo and his Tory cronies were partying nonstop in 2020 and 2021, even before there were widespread vaccinations. Well, BoJo “apologized” for everything:

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday apologized after it was revealed that a string of parties were held in his Downing Street offices at the height of the country’s COVID-19 lockdowns — a controversy that has engulfed his premiership in recent weeks.

“Firstly, I want to say: sorry. Sorry for the things we simply did not get right and sorry for the way that this matter has been handled,” Johnson, 57, told a raucous British Parliament, following the publication of an internal report by civil servant Sue Gray showing that 16 separate gatherings took place in 10 Downing Street while the U.K. population was under lockdown — including one event held inside Johnson’s private apartment.

The much-anticipated report, which was curtailed by a separate Scotland Yard investigation into eight of the gatherings, blamed a “failure of leadership” for the parties in Downing Street, which include two events held on the eve of Prince Philip’s funeral. At the time, the U.K. was officially in a period of national mourning while the Queen and the royal family were preparing to lay the Duke of Edinburgh to rest at Windsor Castle.

“At least some of the gatherings in question represent a serious failure to observe not just the high standards expected of those working at the heart of government but also of the standards expected of the entire British population,” Gray stated in her report, also published Monday. “Some of the events should not have been allowed to take place. Other events should not have been allowed to develop as they did.”

In his statement to Parliament on Monday, Johnson acknowledged that the culture of Downing Street had to change in light of the Gray report, stating, “I get it and I will fix it.”

“It is no use saying that this or that was within the rules,” he said. “It is no use saying that people were working hard. This pandemic was hard for everyone. We asked people across this country to make the most extraordinary sacrifices, not to meet loved ones, not to visit relatives before they died, and I understand the anger that people feel.”

[From People]

Also included in the report: details of a May 20, 2020 party where Downing Street staffers were told to “bring your own booze” and then they got completely sloshed… at work!! Scotland Yard is investigating eight of the known parties because they rise to the level of criminal behavior and a flagrant abuse of Covid regulations, many of which were set by the Johnson government.

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is calling on BoJo to resign, and Starmer called Boris “a man without shame.” YA THINK? Members of the Tory Party are looking to jump ship from the SS BoJo too – Theresa May removed the dagger from her back and slipped it into Boris’s stomach on live television yesterday, noting: “What the Gray report does show is that No 10 Downing Street was not observing the regulations they had imposed on members of the public. So either my right honourable friend had not read the rules or didn’t understand what they meant and others around him, or they didn’t think the rules applied to Number 10. Which was it?” Buuuurn.

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