Curry and a beer at the end of a day electioneering is probably fairly normal. Conversation may well have slipped between social and work related. All quite unremarkable, not an offence IMHO.
Drinks after work in the garden of No 10 when the weather allows may be normal practice. Conversations probably a mix of social small talk and work related. Illegal and FPNs issued.
I don't really see the difference. Perhaps beer and curry is is sustenance for the working man, yet prosecco and birthday cake is elitist toff food.
Lawyers get involved. Media sense a story. Politicians get defensive and display odd memory lapses - who was there, was it pre-meditated, was it really work etc etc. Defending either KS or BJ seems underpinned by political affiliation or sympathies, not logic.
IMHO this was never worth pursuing - there are far more important issues needing action. It is a testament to the very low level of public esteem in which politicians are justifiably held in seeking to achieve political goals through the manipulation of trivia.
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