I remember thinking to myself in 2020 “Why is our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson…” and some people would have ended the question there, but I went on, “calling people who break Covid rules freedom lovers?”

It seemed odd that you would impose some rules and then be complimentary about the people who break them.

This week we heard that he may have been patting himself on the back.

According to some news reports we are now up to seven parties that the Government may have had.

It’s like the 1990s TV comedy drama A Bit of a Do, which is the first time that’s been used as a reference in a while.

Now we add to the tally an online quiz that Boris Johnson hosted.

That is troubling news but you have to hope they called it Prime Minister’s Questions.

If they missed the chance to make that joke that’s the real crime here.

The quiz was held on the 15th of December when Downing Street was under Tier 2 restrictions, which banned indoor mixing of two or more people from different households.

Making up the numbers for the teams to play a workplace quiz probably involved households mixing. Unless everyone in Government employs their own family, which is definitely a possibility.

There are reports of the teams huddled by computers while drinking wine from a local supermarket. The infuriating part is that this was an online quiz. Everyone could have gone home, logged on, and still played the quiz.

A source said: “Nobody ever questioned whether this was against the rules or if we shouldn’t be doing this.” Of course not, the person in charge of the questions was Boris Johnson, and he may have been too busy planning parties.

Another newspaper claims Mr Johnson broke three rules that were in place when he enjoyed a late-night dinner with his wife Carrie on 21 October last year. He left the restaurant after the 10pm curfew, he mixed with other diners and failed to wear a mask when leaving the table.

It should be simple. If you are the one telling people there’s a rule, the first thing you have to do is not be caught breaking that rule. It’s the first rule of not being a hypocrite.

A spokesperson for No 10 has denied the curfew rules were broken, saying any delay leaving the restaurant would have been down to operational security reasons.

How could the security team have anticipated that Boris would need to leave at 10pm, the national curfew time?

I’ll be grateful when we can go back to talking about other news. Then I really will throw a party.