BBC’s Ros Atkins sums up the No 10 party furore in 4 and a half minutes

We’re happy to report that the wonderful Ros Atkins has made another of his famous potted explainers – this time about the parties held in 10 Downing Street last December.

If the rapid-fire revelations have left your head spinning, or if you’ve simply been in a cupboard with no internet access for a week, here’s the catch-up.

The story of the No. 10 Christmas Party last December. In 4 mins. Produced Michael Cox. https://t.co/jig7Bro5sd pic.twitter.com/nUHQaOk9Zd

— Ros Atkins (@BBCRosAtkins) December 2, 2021

This is how tweeters have been reacting to the devastating summary.

Ros Atkins is rapidly becoming a national hero… https://t.co/dj33DZMDhX

— Gary Gilligan #BLM #FreeNazanin #GTTO #3.5% (@garygilligan) December 2, 2021

Sometimes I think @BBCRosAtkins is an independent broadcaster who's taken over the BBC airwaves for a time. Please, more of him, and more like him.

— Paul Carswell #fbpe #fbppr #RejoinEU (@pcpcuk) December 2, 2021

If this story gets any bigger, Boris Johnson is going to have to do the thinkable and push a couple of good friends under a bus. https://t.co/OhFw0yQ4Tq

— Beaubodor (@beaubodor) December 2, 2021

I believe I have formally fallen in love with Ros. https://t.co/7M37OfXSAV

— Dr Katherine Schofield (PhD) (@katherineschof8) December 2, 2021

Public-service broadcasting at its best. https://t.co/ta0dQ594Py

— Elisabeth Braw (@elisabethbraw) December 2, 2021

Who would have thought that the words 'games, drinks and nibbles' could be used so devastatingly?

— Steve Mortimer (@PlymouthSea) December 2, 2021

Brilliant package on Downing Street's Christmas Party of 18 December 2020. I was sitting outside a hospice window that day, as I had been every day since March 2020…https://t.co/MvuEZ0mxlQ

— Nick Harris (@sportingintel) December 2, 2021

Give him the marr show https://t.co/26nxrTcyVJ

— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) December 2, 2021

If you thought it was cringeworthy seeing Boris Johnson brushing aside the accusations, here’s the Conservative MP for Erewash, Maggie Throup, conducting Olympic-standard moral gymnastics to defend her boss.