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🔴Tories have ridiculed No 10's wall of silence on whether Boris Johnson attended a lockdown garden party.

Questions about the controversial event have been deflected by Downing Street, write @benrileysmith, @HarryYorke1 and @Masonboyowen.

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🔴Government ministers and the Prime Minister's press team have not said whether claims Mr Johnson attended the drinks gathering on May 20 2020 are correct

Instead any questions about the controversial event have been deflected on grounds that a probe into all such claims is ongoing

🔴At a daily Lobby briefing to journalists on Tuesday, Mr Johnson's spokesman declined to comment on reports of a "bring your own booze" party in the garden of his Downing Street office in May 2020

🗣️"It is simply the case that we wouldn't want to be seen to be prejudging that ongoing work," the spokesman said

The leaked email obtained by ITV News from Martin Reynolds invited people to "socially distanced drinks" on May 20, 2020

➡️On the same day the public were told they could only socialise outside with one other person outside their household.

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