Boris Johnson had birthday bash during lockdown, reports suggest Boris Johnson had a birthday party during the first lockdown in 2020, according to a report by ITV News, with social distancing rules clearly forbidding indoor social gatherings at the time. The prime minister’s wife, Carrie Johnson, allegedly helped organise a surprise party for Johnson - said to have been attended by up to 30 people, including the interior designer Lulu Lytle - on the afternoon of 19 June. The event, involving picnic food from M&S, reportedly took place in the Cabinet Room at No 10 Downing Street, after the prime minister returned from an official visit to a school in Hertfordshire. Downing St say the prime minister only attended for less than 10 minutes. On the evening of the same day, family friends are understood to have been hosted upstairs in the prime minister’s residence in an apparent further breach of the rules. Number 10 have denied this, claiming the prime minister only hosted a small number of family members outside. My colleagues Jessica Elgot and Aubrey Allegretty report that most Tory MPs are still determined to wait for the outcome of Sue Gray’s inquiry before making up their minds on the future of Boris Johnson as prime minister. Gray’s recommendations on overhauling No 10’s operation are expected late this week. The FT’s Jim Pickard reports that some Tory MPs think the PM’s job might be saved for now by developments in Ukraine: Former Tory party chair Baroness Warsi told Channel 4 News: Anybody who was at a party where rules were broken, whether that’s the prime minister, ministers, special advisers, or civil servants, should resign. If you are in a place which makes the rules and you are seen not to be following those rules, then you should fall on your sword.