North East MPs have deemed videos that have emerged of Conservative party staff drinking and dancing eleven days before Christmas 2020 as “beggars’ belief” and “sickening”.

The video, taken at the Conservative Campaign Headquarters in London on December 14, 2020, shows around 24 attendees at an event. A pair is seen twirling hand in hand past a sign saying: “Please keep your distance,” the Mirror has exclusively revealed.

Shortly after the videos were taken, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson would announce a nationwide lockdown that would cancel Christmas for families up and down the country, and plunge the nation into months-long isolation.

Now North East MPs Alex Cunningham and Peter Gibson have condemned the videos.

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Mr Gibson, a Conservative, apologised for the conduct of some of his party members, saying “I am sorry the British people have been let down in this way”, but vowed that he will “continue to work hard for the people of Darlington.”

Mr Cunningham, the Labour MP for Stockton North, was left "sick to the stomach" at the video. 

He said: “The photographs of senior Tories and staff partying were shocking but to see the film of them laugh and dance and even acknowledge they were breaking Covid rules will make many a person sick to the stomach. 

“That one of those in the photographs, Shaun Bailey has been rewarded with a peerage beggars’ belief - and it ought to be withdrawn alongside the other crony awards dished out by disgraced former PM Johnson. 

“As for the Tees Tories who continue to worship at his altar, it's time they showed a hint of maturity and condemned him and his partying officials. 

“Just what I wonder have they to say to the thousands of families across the Tees Valley who stuck to the rules to the point of missing saying goodbye to dying relatives? 

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“The 21st century Tory Party is rotten to the core and it’s time Sunak, who himself was fined for Partying, did the right thing and called a general election." 

Mr Gibson said: “I have said from day one that there are things that happened in London which shouldn’t have. More evidence being shared of events we already know about doesn’t change but re-angers the public who are already rightly angry about these events.

“I am sorry the British people were let down in this way. People do however want those of us in politics to actually get on with the priorities for our country, like halving inflation, reducing the debt, growing the economy, cutting waiting lists and stopping the boats.

“Despite those in my party who have let us all down I will continue to work hard for the people of Darlington.”

This new Partygate evidence comes as a report by the Privileges Committee this week found former Prime Minister Boris Johnson “deliberately misled MPs” with his Partygate denials.

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Gareth Eve, whose wife Lisa Shaw died following the AstraZeneca Vaccine, said: “Me and my son spent our last Christmas with my wife Lisa in 2020, before she went on to take the vaccine they said we all needed in April 2021.

“A vaccine for a virus they clearly had absolutely no fear of whatsoever My wife’s death was caused by the vaccine. Coroner confirmed.”