UK's report on lockdown-breaking parties at British PM Boris Johnson's offices criticises 'failures of leadership' that allowed events to go ahead
Gray said what she could say was"extremely limited" owing to the Metropolitan police's intervention.
But she found that given the demands the government was making of the public to fight the spread of coronavirus, "some of the behaviour surrounding these gatherings is difficult to justify". "Some of the events should not have been allowed to take place. Other events should not have been allowed to develop as they did."
Johnson's immediate future had been in doubt until the Met police said last week it was also looking into 12 of the 16 events for possible breaches of coronavirus regulations. Weeks of revelations in the British media since December have seen leaked photographs and emails indicating repeated breaches of social distancing rules the government set.
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