A video of Prime Minister Boris Johnson dancing with a lightsabre-wielding London Meeting member at a Christmas social gathering practically ten years in the past has re-emerged amid information of extra Downing Road events.
The widely-shared footage of what’s believed to be a 2013 bash set Twitter and Instagram ablaze at the moment.
One wag who posted it added the caption ‘It was a piece occasion within the basement really’.
The footage reveals Mr Johnson dancing with Jeanette Arnold OBE, who had been a member of the London Meeting since 2000.
Ms Arnold – who turned chair in 2015 – appears unlikely to be sharing a dancefloor with the PM sooner or later.
This week she tweeted her disgust on the reviews of the No 10 lockdown breaking events.
She stated: ‘I doubt whether or not the PM has an sincere bone in his physique so regrettably he isn’t going to do the first rate factor and resign.’
The PM regarded very youthful as he danced to the full of life strains of All Evening Lengthy on the bash
The humorous movie confirmed the PM dancing with Jeanette Arnold OBE in 2013 as she held lightsabre
Mr Johnson having a whale of a time on the black and white checked flooring
The dancing video reveals Mr Johnson and Ms Arnold dancing as she holds an illuminated blue lightsaber.
It’s really a Lucasfilm prop apparently given to the now-PM by the late Christopher Lee, who starred in hit movies.
Web merriment at Mr Johnson’s clarification of the Might 2020 social gathering confirmed no signal of abating at the moment.
One photoshop-savvy Twitter consumer created a brand new model of the Now That is What I Name A Get together Anthems – in fact swapping the phrase ‘social gathering’ for ‘work occasion’.
One other modified Arsenal footballer Thomas Partey’s surname to the identical factor.
Elsewhere a photoshoot of the PM and Rishi Sunak with beer barrels was reappropriated for a predictable new goal.
And one prankster even joked concerning the Met Commissioner turning to music as a DJ named Cressida Decks.
witter consumer created a brand new model of the Now That is What I Name A Get together Anthems, altering it to ‘work occasion’.
Arsenal footballer Thomas Partey’s surname was modified to a distinct phrase in a single meme
A photoshoot of the PM and Rishi Sunak with beer barrels was reappropriated to mock him
One joked concerning the Met Commissioner turning to music as a DJ named Cressida Decks.
James Corden was featured shouting social gathering on one tweet concerning the gatherings at No 10 and its gardens.
In the meantime an image of a nightclub rave was captioned as a ‘work occasion’ by one witty net consumer.
A bunch of individuals in a swimming pool holding drinks got related remedy.
And an illustration of a bunch of primates having a tea social gathering was captioned ‘One more work occasion for the cash worshipping cult’.
This morning the Prime Minister’s former director of communications apologised over a No 10 social gathering the night time earlier than the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.
James Slack, who till final yr was Mr Johnson’s director of communications, apologised on Friday morning for the ‘anger and damage’ his leaving social gathering in April 2021 had precipitated.
James Corden was featured shouting social gathering on one tweet concerning the gatherings at No 10
An image of a nightclub rave was captioned as a ‘work occasion’ by one witty net consumer at the moment
A bunch of individuals in a swimming pool holding drinks had been additionally described as a piece occasion
A drawing of a bunch of primates having a tea social gathering was captioned ‘One more work occasion for the cash worshipping cult’.
Mr Slack stated he took ‘full accountability’ and was ‘deeply sorry’.
It got here after The Telegraph reported that advisers and civil servants gathered after work for 2 separate occasions on April 16 2021, because the nation was in a interval of mourning after the loss of life of Prince Philip.
The occasions had been to mark the departures of Mr Slack and one of many Prime Minister’s private photographers, the newspaper stated.
The 2 occasions are stated to have began individually and later merged.