So he's in a room doing a quiz with people less than two metres away, one of whom is wrapped in tinsel and another who's wearing a Father Christmas hat. Absolutely against the Tier Two law of the time, but one of his lackeys sez that it's OK because he was there "only briefly" (he didn't say how long the other revellers were there for...) and that they weren't seen to be drinking. The backlash from his cronies and blind-as-a-bat vox-poppers is that the press and the BBC need to "stop playing politics" and get off his back. Would that be the same press that, for decades, has been instrumental in getting the Tories elected? Oh, those 'orrid fairweather friends!