Our politicians certainly seem to enjoy drinking on the job

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Boris Johnson and his wife, with staff, pictured with wine in the Downing Street garden in May 2020 (Guardian/eyevine)

With all these “gatherings” involving cheese and wine at No 10, cabinet office and other ministerial private offices being explained away as “business meetings”, am I the only person concerned that our prime minister and his supporters consider it to be a perfectly acceptable narrative that they are working on our behalf while under the influence of alcohol? Surely, either they are working, and taking a salary from the taxpayer who would expect them to be sober; or they are not working? Maybe this explains some of the decision-making.

Carol Ferguson

York