We’ve been hearing a lot about Christmas parties today and whether companies should host them this year.
A UK minister who says it is up to individual businesses to decide whether to have a Christmas party this year says he has cancelled his own.
Science minister George Freeman earlier told LBC Radio: “I can tell you that my parliamentary team and I normally have a Christmas party.
“We’ve decided this year that it is probably sensible to do it by Zoom and wait for the spring. It won’t be the best party in the world.
“But… we don’t want to be telling every individual business what they should or shouldn’t be doing. It is a matter for them.”
It comes after the prime minister and health secretary said there was no need to cancel Christmas parties.
Sir Martin Sorrell, of advertising agency S4Capital, is urging the government to offer clear guidance to businesses who he says are seeing a “sharp series of cancellations” in Christmas parties since the emergence of the Omicron variant.
