to help us do that we have the katie, director of communications for teresa mae when she was prime ministerchael, political commentator for mail plus ed kitty donaldson, the political editor for bloomberg news. let's start with pippa crerar from the mirror. it was your story which started all of this. when did you first hear that there had been a christmas party in downing street? well, i actually first heard rumours way back injanuary but they were just that. and i wasn't able to substantiate, i tried my best but didn't manage to get there. and about a month ago i got handed what i would describe as a metaphorical brown paper envelope which contained enough evidence in it for me to start asking questions again. so i then spent several weeks speaking to sources about whether a party had taken place and then once i'd established that it had, speaking to them about who is at it, what was done at the party, secret santa and the festive games and drinks and nibbles and so on. and then we were just really waiting for a moment that would be the right time to publish. so you come back to the story

we had the former deputy minister on, he was a senior minister under teresa mae saying that he didn'tservatives have completely opposed covid passports given the experience that they say they have had with apparently not claiming working north of the border. so this isn'tjust one part of the conservative party, there can significant concerns across different wings of the party. the question, i suppose, different wings of the party. the question, isuppose, is different wings of the party. the question, i suppose, is whether some of that opposition will be reduced this evening because, one of the messages from the prime minister, because the republicans are in the real concern from the scientists we have seen over how quickly i'm a spread from a professor clay chris whitty the chief medical officer briefed a number of mps this afternoon about some of the concerns that he has about how quickly the virus is spreading, and another thing i've been told this afternoon is that may well have convinced some of the rebels either to sit on their hands are potentially to vote with the government t

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