british prime Minister Boris johnson is apologizing for attending
a gathering a year and a half ago.
It all happened May 20th of 2020 in
a garden at his official downing Street residence.
Now at the time, strict covid restrictions in the UK prohibited such gatherings,
johnson says he attended the party
for about 25 minutes before going inside to work.
He indicated he believed it was a work event.
Members of the opposition party called that excuse ridiculous.
And some are even calling for johnson to resign.
Really interesting uh update here, Chloe as we know,
so many public figures and leaders during this time under scrutiny during
coronavirus in ways that we didn't see before the pandemic,
just because you can potentially create a super spreader event.
I know we saw it with our own political figures here in the United States as well.
Yeah,
and I think people being so outraged just because of the
severity of the lockdowns in the UK at the time,
this, you know,
situation and this controversially obviously continuing
to kind of snowball here um,
with johnson finally, you know,
admitting that he attended apologizing for suggesting it's a work event.
I think that's a little bit of a stretch and that
seems to be what his critics are saying as well.
You know, leaders obviously if they can't be leading by example at this time,
it really looks bad on them, especially at a time when of course, as you said,
this could have potential to be, you know, a super spreader event here