Video emerges of Tory staff partying during Covid

A video has emerged showing immoderate Conservative Party workers drinking and dancing astatine a Christmas enactment during the Covid pandemic.

In the video, published by the Mirror website, 1 idiosyncratic tin beryllium heard saying: "As agelong arsenic we don't watercourse that we're, like, bending the rules."

The insubstantial says the video sheds caller airy connected a enactment that constabulary had antecedently looked into.

The Conservatives said disciplinary enactment had already been taken.

The video, taken astatine the Conservative party's office successful Westminster, was from December 2020 erstwhile London was successful Tier 2 restrictions.

This meant radical were banned from socialising indoors, but with members of their household oregon a enactment bubble.

Police investigated the lawsuit past twelvemonth and nary fines were issued.

Shaun Bailey, who is present astir to instrumentality up a spot successful the House of Lords, was moving for London politician successful December 2020.

During this time, members of his run squad attended this gathering wrong the Tory party's HQ.

The lawsuit has been reported before, but lone inactive photographs were published by the Daily Mirror astatine the time. Although Mr Bailey was photographed surrounded by enactment workers successful those images, helium is not seen successful this newly-obtained video.

The Conservative Party said 4 radical seconded to Mr Bailey's run were disciplined.

Mr Bailey was fixed a peerage successful Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.

In the 45-second video connected the Mirror website, radical tin beryllium seen drinking and lasting successful groups, portion a antheral and a pistillate tin beryllium seen holding hands and dancing.

Labour's Angela Rayner said the attendees had "openly mocked" the rules of Covid pandemic.

"The Tories deliberation it's 1 regularisation for them and 1 regularisation for everyone else," added the lawman leader.

Liberal Democrat lawman person Daisy Cooper Tory MPs and ministers should beryllium "sick to their stomachs" seeing this caller footage.

"While families grieved and NHS unit worked connected the beforehand line, Conservative Campaign Headquarters partied."

The Metropolitan Police person not yet responded to the caller video footage.