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[[File:Sue Gray report Fig 4.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[Partygate]] scandal contributed to the fall of the [[premiership of Boris Johnson]] ''(right)''.<ref name=Marshall/><ref name=Mitchell/>|alt=Colour photograph of Boris Johnson, Simon Case and unidentified others with their faces blurred at a surprise birthday party for Johnson, at a time when such gatherings were against the law.]]

[[Partygate]] was a [[political scandal]] in the United Kingdom about gatherings of [[Government of the United Kingdom|government]] and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] staff during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom|COVID-19 pandemic]] in 2020 and 2021, at a time when such events were prohibited by [[British government response to the COVID-19 pandemic|public health restrictions]]. The first [[COVID-19]] death in the UK occurred on 5 March 2020; 18 days later, the death toll reached 335. As a result, Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]] announced that the UK would go into a full [[COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom|lockdown]], with new restrictions on gathering socially with people from different households. As the pandemic continued, the rules for socialising evolved: on 16 September, the government introduced a new "[[rule of six]]" in England, whereby groups of more than six people were banned from meeting, and, the following month, Johnson unveiled new [[First COVID-19 tier regulations in England|"three-tier" regulations]], with London being placed in the "medium" tier&nbsp;1 restrictions. Lockdown rules continued in England until 19 July 2021, at which point almost all of them were lifted.