Balmy weather and a premature spirit of having ‘beaten back’ Covid induced Boris Johnson’s staff to spurn their own rules
It was unusually warm on 20 May 2020, with the mercury hitting 26C. The windows of No 10 Downing Street were still displaying rainbows drawn by children in support of the NHS and Boris Johnson had enjoyed an early morning run in shorts and T-shirt.
The sunny weather coincided with a retrospectively misplaced sense of optimism inside the building that the worst of Covid was now behind us despite strict national lockdown measures still in place. Five days earlier, staff in a celebratory mood had enjoyed impromptu drinks in the garden of No 10 and inside their offices, with Johnson telling one that they deserved their drink for “beating back the virus”.
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