Aimee Walker
Kate Garraway is believed to be ‘devastated’ after hearing of Downing Street’s alleged Christmas party that apparently took place during Tier 3 restrictions last year.
The 54-year-old – whose husband Derek Draper was left seriously ill after contracting coronavirus a year ago – slammed the ‘heartbreaking and ridiculous’ get-together on Good Morning Britain.
She said: “I just don’t want to throw stones, basically, because the obvious thing to say is it’s heartbreaking and ridiculous and I can’t believe it because I don’t think they’re a group of evil people.
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“But there is definitely something very, very uncomfortable about… maybe they just didn’t know the devastation… the rules were affecting all of us.”
Pitching in, co-host Susanna Reid commented: “But Adam Wagner, who is a barrister – we regularly talk to Adam on the programme – has been, as you suggest, crunching the legals over this.”
Quoting a document, she continued: “’During that period, there were only two legal ways to have an indoor gathering of more than 30 people.
“’There were permitted, organised gatherings – but that would mean guests weren’t allowed to mingle with anyone not in their household. That doesn’t seem to apply.
“’And the only other legal route was if the gathering was ‘reasonably necessary for work’. It seems doubtful any kind of party held for more than 30 people indoors where Covid was more likely to spread would be reasonably necessary for work’.”
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Garraway then slammed the government for ‘breaking’ the ‘complicated’ rules everyone else followed.
She fumed: “Because I just remember the scrutiny that we went through to try and make things work.
“And you know, Susanna, because I talked to you a lot about it, about even simple things like ‘Can I leave them on their own? Am I allowed to have people in to look after the children?’
“It was just very complicated. But I think if I was doing that, I know every household in the land was doing that – ‘Am I within the rules?’ And it’s just depressing…”
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