UK newspaper publishes photo of PM Johnson at alleged garden gathering

FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain, December 15, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Guardian newspaper on Sunday published a photograph of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and more than a dozen other people drinking wine in the garden of his Downing Street residence which it said was taken during a COVID-19 lockdown in May 2020.

In response, his office said there were staff meetings in the garden that day.