BBC Breakfast presenter Rachel Burden has been criticised for an insensitive comment made over the weekend about the new Partygate video exposed by The Mirror. The video, which had never previously been seen, showed MPs and Downing Street staff breaking strict Coronavirus lockdown measures by drinking, eating and socialising at a ridiculous Christmas booze-up back in 2020.
It occurred at a time when millions of Britons across the UK were banned from socialising with friends and family indoors, with then-PM Boris Johnson introducing said set of rules at the height of the global pandemic. During yesterday's edition of BBC Breakfast, Rachel riled viewers while discussing the new footage alongside co-host Ben Thompson, and guests Sonia Sodha and George Parker.
She said: "I can hear people around the country groaning, ‘Enough of Partygate already, why should we care about this new video?" sparking a wave of criticism from viewing parties across the UK.
