A WILTSHIRE MP says there’s “huge issues” the public should be focussing on “rather than some of these minutiae” in the wake of Christmas party and quiz allegations.

James Gray, MP for North Wiltshire, said he would not be making further comment on the party allegations circulating the media or the “other slings and arrows” fired at Boris Johnson.

Mr Gray said that the Cabinet Secretary will look at it all and he will await the verdicts.

“But I am glad to say that I was not invited to any gatherings of any sort in Downing Street this time last year, and I have no inside information on any of them,” he admitted.

“I do also feel that (leaving aside Allegra Stratton’s levity at a time when so many people were suffering so badly, which was unforgivable), there are so many huge issues on which we should be focussing rather than some of these minutiae.

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“Will President Putin who has amassed this troops on the Ukrainian Border threatening war; or the very nasty Omicron variant threatening both our health and our freedoms; or the satisfactory but fragile economic recovery post-Covid; will any of them really wait to see what the Cabinet Secretary concludes about the wine and cheese and the existence (or not) of Secret Santa?

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“These are real and huge threats to our way of life, rather than the Dominic Cummings inspired conspiracy theories emerging from Downing Street.”

Mr Gray also argued that “getting Brexit done”, fighting the global pandemic, and hosting COP26 should offer Boris a “good degree of credit”.

Meanwhile Devizes MP Danny Kruger says the wrath in his inbox would be fully justified if there was any wrongdoing over the alleged No. 10 Christmas parties.

However, the MP said he sympathises with the Prime Minister’s former spokesman, Allegra Stratton.

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Ms Stratton resigned following the publication of a leaked video showing her joking about a party in Downing Street.

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“But if the reports are true, and Downing Street staff consciously broke the rules that their boss the Prime Minister had just imposed on the rest of the country, then the wrath in my inbox is fully justified,” he said.

“Yes, politicians and their staff are human beings not just public figures, and can let their hair down occasionally - but the most basic rule of a free society is that the people who make the laws must obey them too.

“The thought of No 10 partying while families were separated, old people isolated, and businesses folding, is outrageous.”

Mr Kruger also stuck up for Dominic Cummings last year after the Bernard Castle incident.

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He added that he hopes the investigation ordered by Prime Minister Boris Johnson goes beyond a “whodunit” and creates improvements in the way government is run.

Chippenham MP Michelle Donelan and South West Wiltshire MP, Dr Andrew Murrsion were both approached for comment on the alleged Downing Street party but did not reply.