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The first leaked video of partygate has emerged, showing dozens of Conservative members drinking, laughing and dancing at a festive party during the “height” of the coronavirus pandemic. It comes as former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was found to have “deliberately misled MPs” with his partygate denials, a report by the Privileges Committee found. The Christmas celebration took place at the Conservative Campaign Headquarters in London on December 14, 2020 when many parts of the UK were not allowed to socialise during lockdown. It’s reported that there were around 24 attendees at the event, as the unseen footage shows two...

Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister and a key architect of the “Brexit” movement, has resigned as a member of parliament with immediate effect, according to reports in Britain’s media. Johnson resigned after receiving a copy of a report about whether he had misled parliament about Downing Street parties that had broken lockdown rules imposed by the government during the coronavirus pandemic — a scandal dubbed “Partygate” in the British press. “They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the [House of Commons],” Johnson said in a statement, according to the BBC....

Uh Oh, Spaghettios.

The White House on Wednesday invoked the separation of powers to keep Desiree Rogers, President Obama’s social secretary, from testifying on Capitol Hill about how a couple of aspiring reality television show celebrities crashed a state dinner for the prime minister of India last week. And the couple will not testify, either, according to a statement released late Wednesday by a public relations firm.

Fox reporting. Gibbs has changed his story from "unauthoized people at the reception" to "an internal affair covered by executive privilege." Says will ignore subpoenas.