Residents of an estate who hit headlines when they organised a VE Day bash at the height of the first lockdown say they ‘don’t care’ about the PM’s own alleged party.
Around 300 people attended the bash on the Grove Hill estate in Middlesbrough in May 2020, drawing scorn from millions of Brits who were obeying lockdown rules.
The party, which included a DJ dropping tunes on a lawn, took place at the same time Boris Johnson is alleged to have also broken rules in London at the ‘bring your own bottle’ do.
And people on the estate told Teesside Live they ‘couldn’t care less’.
Defending the PM, Liam Henry, 55, said: “I think this thing about Boris is just a load of tripe.
"I say it as it is - Labour, the Lib Dems, the 1922 Committee - they want to mind their own business. We voted in Boris, not them. And they are all just as bad, they just haven't been caught.
"We support Boris 100%. He's done a good job for us."
Local Alan Winner said of the do at 10 Downing Street: “He's had a party - so what? People couldn't care less.
"And you have to look at this both ways, is he doing a good job? Things are getting good and things are happening.
"When people weren't working (under furlough), he was backing them up at home."
It comes as several people including furious Tory voters said the Prime Minister should quit over the party, revealed via an email from his top aide to 100 No 10 staff inviting them to a ‘BOYB’ drinks do.
Scots Conservative leader Douglas Ross agreed the PM should quit if he was found to have misled Parliament by insisting no rules had been broken.
He said: “If the Prime Minister has misled Parliament, then he must resign.”
And Sir Charles Walker - vice chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee which organises Tory leadership contests - gave the PM a six-month ultimatum.
Natalie, a young mum living on the Teeside estate, was among those furious at the PM’s supposed antics.
She said: “How many times has (the PM) done this? Our party was for VE Day, it was a one off, yet it seems like he was doing it every other weekend - I think he's a hypocrite.”
A dog walker described Boris Johnson as a ‘divvy and a clown’.
