Cookstown man who lost mother on day of No.10 party slams Johnson

A COOKSTOWN man who lost his mother on the day of an alleged Downing Street party has said the Prime Minister has “no integrity”.

Boris Johnson is facing pressure to stand down after fresh evidence emerged yesterday that 100 people were invited by a senior government aide to a ‘bring your own booze’ party in the No. 10 garden in May 2020.

At the time of the event- which Johnson and his wife are rumoured to have been be among the attendees- people in England could not leave their homes without a reasonable excuse and were only allowed to meet one other person outdoors.

Speaking to Radio Ulster today, Roddy McIvor gave an account of how he spent that emotional day, “We had been informed that my mother was terminally ill at Antrim Area Hospital with the Covid-19 virus.

“I went out for a walk at about 12 noon when my sister rang me and we got news that it would be sometime soon. I got another call back that day that we could do a video call to speak to mummy.”

Roddy was joined by his wife a short time later and they had a final video call with his mother before she passed away later that day.

He said he would have “given anything” to have been with his mother that day. “We were following the restrictions that were in place. We couldn’t even come together as a family,” Roddy added.

Reacting to the news that Downing Street held a party on that same day, May 20, Roddy said the “whole thing doesn’t add up”.

He added, “They were coming together as a group to hold bring your own booze parties. They have no credibility at all.

“My mum was a very decent, quiet woman and very much a family woman with a lot of integrity. Those people have no integrity at all.”

The government has remained tight lipped over the affair, instead deferring to the conclusion of a Cabinet Office investigation into multiple allegations of lockdown breaching gatherings.

The investigation is being led by Co. Down woman Sue Gray, a senior civil servant in Westminster.