What happened on 19th June 2023 - with your comments in the Web

On Monday, the Partygate theme continued with further analysis of the video. And ‘dancing woman’ revealed to be aide to a Tory shortlisted to become his party’s London mayoral candidate, the Standard can reveal.

Malin Bogue is seen dancing in a red dress with Jack Smith, who works in Parliament for Tory minister Graham Stuart. At the time Ms Bogue reportedly worked for Shaun Bailey’s mayoral campaign, which ended in defeat to Sadiq Khan in 2021, as did Ben Mallet, who is also seen in the video that was obtained by the Sunday Mirror.

Both Mr Mallet, who was awarded an OBE in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, and Ms Bogue work for Moz Hossain KC, the barrister bidding to secure the Tory nomination to run against Mr Khan in next May’s City Hall elections. The Standard has learned that Ms Bogue accompanied Mr Hossain to the first Tory mayoral hustings, at the Queen Elizabeth conference centre last Friday night, including to the invite-only pre-event drinks.

 "This video is the perfect response to people saying to "dance like nobody is watching". Darling, everybody is now watching. You are on a hundred memes. The only silver lining is that you weren't wearing that jumper. Still, learning what consequences are is a useful experience, better late than never."

""Jingle and Mingle" was the party event name. It was for shaun bailey's mayor of London campaign. He was present. He is likely the responsible organiser.

They knew that mingling wasn't allowed in tier 2 restrictions. This wasn't necessary for work.

What excuse are the met police going to come up with for not fining or more this time? Especially as it appears a lot of lies were filled out on those questionnaires (only opposition parties get the full police treatment, eg SNP)."

 "All staff who participated in these parties should be sacked ." - "And fined/jailed ."

This day either, school leaders’ union opened national strike ballot for first time in its history. 

A ballot for members of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) to vote on industrial action over the issues of pay and conditions, school funding and teacher shortages was launched on Monday. If members vote for strike action, the ASCL will be able to carry out walkouts up until the end of January 2024.

It comes as teacher members of the National Education Union (NEU) in England are set to stage fresh strikes on July 5 and 7 in a dispute over pay. All state schools in England could be affected by walkouts in the autumn term if co-ordinated strike action by the four education unions goes ahead.

Earlier the Mirror readers supported teachers:

"We can find money for Coronations, missiles for Ukraine and numerous other vanity projects, but can't give give teachers, nurses, doctors and rail workers a decent rise to combat record inflation caused largely by Tory incompetence and blatant profiteering (greed)."

"It tells you how desperately bad the situation has become when headteachers are being balloted to take strike action. The decision not to fund public sector pay rises is completely a political one. Huge sums of money can be found for London based vanity projects, useless PPE, corrupt Covid Grant's etc etc so why are public workers being hounded?"

There was quite a number of objectors, yet:

"It's ridiculous. Teachers and heads are on fantastic pay and get to retire at 60yrs of age, they enjoy fabulous holidays compared to the rest of us and they are free to take sick days off on full pay for the most tenuous reasons and many of them do an awful lot of that too."

 "The decision to strike is political. How on Earth, how can you or anyone possibly not see this? You shouldn't be allowed to vote. There should be a basic test people have to pass before they are allowed to vote.:"

"Here we go AGAIN..and to think they educate our present and future children..Its another "SHOW ME THE MONEY" fiasco. "

Also on Monday, one of Britain's top judges called for a tough clampdown on illegal Channel crossings while jailing an Egyptian migrant who tried to come to the UK on a small boat under new laws.

His Honour Judge Alan Large, the UK's Judge Advocate General, ruled it is 'necessary in 2023' to send a strong message to migrants making the treacherous journey that they will face sanctions.

Jailing the Egyptian immigrant who attempted to sneak in on a small boat for eight months, Judge Large said English courts must impose 'significant deterrents' so migrants are put off making the 'dangerous' passage.

British readers supported his decision:

"Very well said Judge Large, it needs to stop"