The former Mayoral candidate who attended a ‘raucous’ event at the Conservative party’s campaign HQ last winter, quit the London assembly role after lockdown party reports on Tuesday evening.
The event, organised by top Tory Shaun Bailey’s mayoral campaign, took place on December 14 last year when London was in Tier 2.
After he was approached by the Mirror on Tuesday, Mr Bailey dramatically quit as chair of the London Assembly’s police and crime committee.
The move places increased pressure on Boris Johnson and his Downing Street staff, who have been accused of holding a series of lockdown-defying social events in winter last year and earlier. Johnson has also faced claims he hosted events in his Downing Street flat, Guardian reported.
The only central government figure to have resigned so far had been Allegra Stratton, the spokesperson for the Cop26 climate summit, who was previously Johnson’s press secretary. Allegra stepped down after footage emerged of her and other No 10 staff joking about an apparent party on 18 December 2020 at Downing Street, one which officials had previously denied had taken place.
