Resigning UK PM Johnson plans ‘lavish’ wedding party at Chequers residence – report

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who stated on Thursday he would resign, is because of throw an enormous wedding ceremony social gathering to mark his marriage to spouse Carrie at his official Chequers nation residence later this month, the Mirror reported.

Johnson, who will stay chief till a brand new prime minister is chosen, is staying on partially to throw the “lavish” social gathering, the Mirror reported, citing unnamed senior sources from Johnson’s Conservative Celebration.

Requested in regards to the report, a Downing Avenue spokesperson stated: “The Prime Minister has a robust sense of responsibility and can proceed to serve his nation till a brand new chief is in place, solely to proceed his obligation to the general public.”

Along with their official 10 Downing Avenue residence in London, British prime ministers have historically used Chequers, a sixteenth century English nation home north of the capital, as a private nation retreat, a spot to host world leaders and infrequently, to throw events.

Johnson married Carrie, 34, final 12 months in a low-key, secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral in central London in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.

The couple’s reported Chequers wedding ceremony social gathering is deliberate for July 30 and anticipated to be “a a lot greater and extra glamorous affair”, the Mirror stated.

The Mirror, citing two sources, stated the Johnsons have been eager to go forward with the social gathering, to which many family and friends members had been invited.

Situated in a 600-hectare property the scale of greater than 1,000 soccer fields, Chequers has 10 bedrooms and an intensive artwork assortment. It has been in use by British prime ministers for the reason that Nineteen Twenties.

(Reporting by Sachin Ravikumar; Modifying by Bernadette Baum)