No 10 followed Covid guidelines, insists minister

Conservative chair Oliver Dowden has said that all the Covid guidelines were followed last Christmas, in light of ongoing reports that No 10 held illicit parties during lockdown.

Dowden told BBC Breakfast earlier today that he had been “having conversations with people on the doorsteps in Bexley” where the Conservatives held its seat by a slim majority in yesterday’s by-election.

“I have not been having conversations about what may or may not have been happening over a year ago,” he stressed.

He denied “withholding information, “adding: “I would be interested to know what your viewers are really interested in.

“I think they would expect a member of the Cabinet, at a time when we are in the middle of a Covid crisis… to be on making sure we appropriate steps to deal with that.”

“I have been assured by the Prime Minister that rules at all time were followed at Downing Street.”