Allegra Stratton resigns over No 10 Christmas party row

Allegra Stratton has stepped down as the government’s spokesperson for the Cop26 climate summit after footage of her emerged joking about a party at Downing Street during the peak of lockdown rules in December last year. At the time the video was shot, Stratton was Boris Johnson’s press secretary. Her exchanges about the party with other No 10 officials were filmed as part of rehearsals for a proposed daily televised Downing Street press briefing, which she was going to host

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