UK Government Defends Boris Johnson Over Downing Street Quiz

UK Government Defends Boris Johnson Over Downing Street Quiz
An image of Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking part in an online Downing Street quiz flanked by colleagues in the library of 10 Downing Street in London, published on the front page of the Sunday Mirror on Dec. 12, 2021. PA
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The UK government has defended Boris Johnson after a photograph emerged of the prime minister taking part in a Christmas quiz last December when London was under COVID-19 restrictions.

The Sunday Mirror published a picture of Johnson reportedly playing quiz master while flanked by two colleagues, one of whom is draped in tinsel and the other wearing a Santa hat, in the Number 10 library.