A Tory MP has stated the Authorities is prone to discover it “nearly unimaginable” to introduce “very proscriptive” Covid-19 restrictions, after a video emerged displaying aides joking about festive celebrations final 12 months.
Sir Charles Walker, MP for Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, was talking after footage was obtained by ITV Information, displaying Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s then-press secretary Allegra Stratton and adviser Ed Oldfield, together with different aides, laughing a couple of “fictional” Downing Road get together in December 2020.
He instructed Occasions Radio: “I feel now that, going ahead, any measures might be advisory. I feel it could be very troublesome to enshrine them in legislation after which as soon as once more ask our poor police forces to implement them.”
He added: “To be very proscriptive about this now, significantly as we’ve had such a profitable vaccine rollout… is rather more troublesome, and was all the time going to be rather more troublesome. And the occasions of the final 24 hours make it in all probability nearly unimaginable now.”
