A Boris Johnson aide who was pictured with tinsel spherical his neck on the partygate Christmas quiz in Downing Road has left his job.
Stuart Glassborow, who was the Prime Minister 's Deputy Principal Non-public Secretary, held a "tea and cake" gathering on Friday to mark his departure from his function.
It comes because the Metropolitan Police begin to problem fines to Quantity 10 employees over one other Xmas quiz held on the identical week, in accordance with the Sunday Mirror.
Glassborow was earlier named as a type of anticipated to be sacked because the PM battled to avoid wasting his personal job.
The Sunday Mirror experiences the aide is taking "prolonged go away over the summer season" earlier than transferring on to his new function.
Earlier this yr the Mirror revealed an image of two members of Johnsons employees in No10, alongside the PM and a bottle of champagne throughout a quiz.
Glassborow was snapped a display screen with tinsel spherical his neck throughout the covid lockdown.
Quite a few employees took half within the quiz in individual on December 15, 2020, regardless of claims it was an ‘on-line’ occasion.
A supply instructed our sister paper that Glassborow was not leaving due to partygate, however as a result of he wished to do one thing new.
Cops are understood to have been begun issuing fines to those that attended the festive season occasion, which passed off on December 18, 2020.
The occasion, first revealed by the Mirror, was mentioned to have been attended by 40 of Johnson’s high workforce.
The Downing Road media workforce dodged questions for per week earlier than a video revealed by ITV confirmed employees joking about it.
Officers knocked again glasses of wine and held a Secret Santa whereas the remainder of the nation was pressured to remain at residence.
The Prime Minister claimed within the Home of Commons that each one covid steerage was adopted, however a video emerged of a mock press convention during which press secretary Allegra Stratton joked concerning the knees-up and the shortage of social distancing.
She later resigned following the emergence of the video.
Quantity 10 declined to remark, apart from to verify the Prime Minister has not acquired any additional fines right now.
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