I've been pondering the argument given by #Johnson to the #PrivilegesCommittee yesterday, especially the bit about the leaving event for a member of staff, with #champagne, where the #defense seemed to be that it's traditional to toast a team member at a #LeavingDo.

This must irk a lot of people.

Me, my brother, my mother and all my mother's friends who couldn't have the #traditional #funeral and wake she would have loved in normal times - a proper send-off. The #Queen sitting alone in her #grief. The millions of people who couldn't be at a bedside in those final moments. All those "traditional" things, missed.

But it's essential to toast a leaving colleague. Who the f**k does he think he is? What planet does he live on?

Can we please have socially responsible governance of this country from now on?

#ProportionalRepresentation #JohnsonOut #ToriesOut #Covid

Rare visit to the London office this afternoon. Plan to do some chatting. Afterwards there will be drinking. #FreeBar #LeavingDo