Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 12 December 2021

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1. PM ‘broke rules at Xmas quiz’

Boris Johnson has been accused of breaking Covid laws by hosting a Christmas quiz in No10 last year. The Sunday Mirror pictured the PM reading out the questions. According to a source, many staff huddled by computers, conferring on questions and knocking back drinks from a local Tesco Metro. The insider said that in one office there were 24 people. London was then under regulations banning any social mixing between households. Downing Street said the PM “briefly took part virtually in a quiz”.

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