The photo that frames Johnson: the toast at Downing st. during lockdown

LONDON – Boris Johnson with a glass of white in hand, a toast in Downing Street for at least 8 people, the British Prime Minister’s canonical “red briefcase” thrown between champagne, four bottles of wine and one of gin. The extraordinary photos published by ITV of the party on November 20, 2020, in which the prime minister is portrayed and caught drinking with other people at “Number 10” despite the full lockdown, is potentially explosive and could ignite internal protests and rebellions against him .