'Sorry doesn't cut it' - People react to release of Sue Gray's report into No.10 lockdown parties
manchestereveningnews.co.uk"It is like the nation is watching a ludicrous pantomime and everyone is laughing for the wrong reasons," said Sally Duffy. Like people across the country, Sally kept to the tough lockdown rules imposed during the pandemic while there were reports of parties going on in No.10.
It meant she was unable to see her mum when she was told she had terminal cancer due to restrictions on visitors. Sally was one of many shoppers out in Wythenshawe on Monday afternoon speaking their minds as Sue Gray's report into lockdown parties at Downing Street was released.
Just hours after the long awaited report into alleged parties that went on behind the doors of No.10 was released, the Manchester Evening News gauged the reaction from the public - and what the next steps should be. READ MOREDowning Street lockdown parties 'should not have been allowed to happen' The damning nine-page 'update' on Monday said 'at least some' of the gatherings were 'a serious failure to observe the standards expected of the entire British population at the time'.
It comes as the Met Police were called in to investigate gatherings which could potentially have broken lockdown restrictions issued by the same ministers behind No.10. READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. "The reality of all this is, if this had happened at any other work place and they had been holding parties behind closed doors, getting drunk and breaking the rules that the whole country had to follow, they would be struck off immediately," said Sally Duffy, from Wythenshawe. "It is just an absolute disgrace and we have become a laughing stock.
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