UK PM Johnson ‘sickened and furious’ over lockdown party video
08 December 2021 |
2:26 pm
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised on Wednesday for a video showing his staffers joking about reports of a party in Downing Street during the COVID lockdown, saying he was furious but that he had been assured there was no party.
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