Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast. I'm Matt Chauley.

We've got the party.

To the right. To the right!

Yes, so we now have the email invitation for the Prime Minister's principal private

section to the Prime Minister's entire staff to the party that didn't exist to the Prime

Minister knew nothing about.

After what has been an incredibly busy period, we thought it would be nice to make the

most of this lovely weather and have some socially distant drinks in the number 10 garden

this evening.

Please join us from 6pm and bring your own booze!

That's what the email said.

This was less than an hour.

After the Cabinet Minister Oliver Downs and appeared in a Downing Street press conference

to say,

You can spend time outdoors and exercises often as you like, and you can meet one person

outside your household in an outdoor public place provided that you stay two metres apart.

And on the same day, the men police put out this jaunty video saying,

If you've been enjoying the hottest day of the year so far with a little sun face emerging,

it's important that we all continue to stay alert and you can relax, have a picnic, exercise

or play sport as long as you are on your own with people you live with or just you and one

other person.

Well, yesterday the Prime Minister was asked directly if he was at the party.

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