A 23-year-old man is demanding a refund for a fine he was hit with during lockdown after Boris Johnson admitted attending a party at Downing Street in May 2020.
Callum Harrison said police broke up the party, which saw 10 people at his home to celebrate a friend's birthday in October 2020.
He says he and his housemates were each slapped with £100 fines.
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Callum, who was studying in Newcastle at the time, paid the fine and admits breaking the rules, the Manchester Evening News reports.
But after it emerged that Prime Minister Boris Johnson attended a drinks party with Downing Street staff members in May of the same year, he has been left furious.
Callum is now calling for the government to refund him - and anyone else who was fined during lockdown.
He said: "We had an eight man house and had two extra people over.
"One was a girlfriend of the housemate and the other was a guy who was at the time living on his own.
"We were drinking as it was a housemate's birthday, but it was hardly a party.
"Nothing like the Downing Street one anyway."
Callum said the group had been out to a numbers of bars earlier on the evening of October 30, before returning to the house.
Police later knocked at the door. Callum said he is not sure how they found out about the gathering.
At the time, a tier system was in place across the country, with the North East in Tier 2. It meant household mixing was banned indoors unless people were in a support bubble.
Seeing the recent news about gatherings and parties attended by Downing Street staff has left Callum, from Northwich in Cheshire, "annoyed".
The Prime Minister is facing calls to quit after admitting attending the "bring your own booze" party.
At the time, the rest of the country was banned from meeting more than one person outdoors.
Mr Johnson said he believed the gathering - that 100 Downing Street staff were invited to - 'technically falls within the guidance'.
He told the House of Commons during PMQ's that he only attended for 25 minutes and "believed implicitly that this was a work event".
Callum added: "It's very hypocritical and has broken any trust I had.
"They have done what they told us not to do the whole time.
"You hear some of the stories of people not being able to see their families when they were ill, or attend funerals. Everyone's lives were affected and the people producing these restrictions were not following the rules themselves.
"It's tarnished my view of politics.
"People like me should get refunded."
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