Man who was fined £100 for having friends in his garden during lockdown ...

A punter who was fined £100 for having friends in his garden during lockdown has called for his money back amid fury at the No 10 party.

Kieron McArdle, from Coleshill, Warwickshire, said the Downing Street booze-up had 'infuriated' him and slammed it as 'one rule for them, one rule for the rest of us'.

The 50-year-old said all those fined should have their cash returned or donated to charity.

It comes as footage emerged of police breaking up an illegal party at the exact time of No 10 bash.

Officers dispersed the crowd in Birmingham at 7.45pm on May 20, 2020, 120 miles away from the Government's notorious 'Bring Your Own Booze' knees-up.

Boris Johnson today apologised for attending the gathering in the garden of Downing Street during the first lockdown.

The PM acknowledged the public 'rage' over the incident but insisted he thought it could have been technically within the rules. 

But Mr McArdle doubled down, telling the Mirror: 'There is no argument that I broke the rules but after seeing more and more stuff coming out it has infuriated me.

'These people should be held to account and I firmly believe anyone who was find should be offered a refund or the money donated to charity.

'It seems so unfair that it was one rule for them and another for us.'

Mr McArdle, a company director for a cleaning and property maintenance firm, had friends over in his garden from 2pm on March 19, 2021, to celebrate his birthday.

They did not go in his house - even to use the toilet - but police were on the scene within an hour.

Mr McArdle said he had spent the second lockdown on his own and was suffering with his mental health.

He was fined £100 and paid in full but is now furious about the Downing Street bash nearly a year earlier.

Meanwhile police at the Birmingham party on the same day as the No 10 bash could be heard yelling: 'Who's in charge?'

Bodycam footage from the 'social gathering' in a cul-de-sac in Handsworth shows one officer ask attendees: 'Good evening people, how we doing?

'Who's in charge? Anyone in charge? No one's in charge!'

A woman claims the party is 'not a social gathering at all' despite officers seeing dozens of people enjoying music, eating a barbecue and chatting together.

Police managed to persuade the party-goers to return to their homes and gardens and assured the crowd coronavirus 'is real'.

He tells the cheering crowd: 'Covid-19 is real, yes. The reason we are here is to provide safety for people.

'We need to disperse this group and for people to go about your business. This gathering needs to stop. All the best, enjoy the sun elsewhere.'

After several minutes the party-goers leave the area with no fines being imposed by officers and no arrests.

Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting tweeted the footage, drawing reference to the Downing Street party.

He said: 'We don't have to imagine what would have happened if anyone else had organised a party of 100 people on the same day as the Downing Street BYOB party.

'Here's what happened in Handsworth. It's one rule for them and another rule for everyone else.'

Mr Johnson today told MPs he attended the May 20, 2020, gathering for around 25 minutes to 'thank groups of staff'.

In his apology in the Commons today, Mr Johnson said: 'I believed implicitly that this was a work event.'

But 'with hindsight I should have sent everyone back inside, I should have found some other way to thank them, and I should have recognised that - even if it could have been said technically to fall within the guidance - there would be millions and millions of people who simply would not see it that way'.

Mr Johnson acknowledged that included 'people who have suffered terribly, people who were forbidden for meeting loved ones at all inside or outside', adding: 'To them and to this House, I offer my heartfelt apologies.'

He said senior official Sue Gray should be allowed to complete her inquiry into a series of alleged parties held during lockdown in No 10 and Whitehall 'so that the full facts can be established'.

However senior Tory MP Sir Roger Gale said it was already clear that Mr Johnson misled Parliament and that politically he was a 'dead man walking'.

Sir Roger, a longstanding critic of the Prime Minister, said he did not expect Mr Johnson to resign and it would fall to the executive of the backbench 1922 Committee - the so-called 'men in grey suits' - to decide his fate.

'We now know that the Prime Minister spent 25 minutes at what was quite clearly a party,' he told BBC Radio 4's The World At One programme.

'After Prime Minister's question time today, it sounds to me, I am afraid, very much as though politically the Prime Minister is a dead man walking.'

Mr Johnson's principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds, invited colleagues to 'socially distanced drinks' on May 20 2020 to 'make the most of the lovely weather' - urging them to 'bring your own booze'.

The Prime Minister acknowledged public anger: 'I know the rage they feel with me and with the Government I lead when they think in Downing

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