Partygate: PM criticised over treatment of No 10 cleaners and guards

Key Facts

By Justin Parkinson Political reporter, BBC News Image source, Reuters Image caption, Boris Johnson apologised for the way some Downing Street staff had been dealt with by officials Labour has attacked Boris Johnson over the treatment of cleaners and security guards outlined in Sue Gray's report on Downing Street lockdown parties.
But one member of the PCS union, who works in the Cabinet Office, which supports the work of the prime minister, said: "There's been a culture of bullying, harassment and sexism in No 10 for many years "It was going on behind [former Prime Minister] Theresa May's back before [Mr Johnson] took office, yet he did nothing to address it.
"Does [the prime minister] show no contrition, no sense of shame that Downing Street under him has been a cesspit, full of arrogant, entitled narcissists?" In a reference to the drinking society Mr Johnson was a member of while at Oxford University, Ms Rayner said: "Boris Johnson has turned Downing Street into a vomit-stained Bullingdon Club."
While Ms Gray's report was critical of the treatment of Downing Street cleaners and security guards, it said steps had since been taken "to introduce more easily accessible means by which to raise concerns electronically".