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The scenes come just months after the Prime Minister was met with a furious backlash after his father jetted to his four-bed home in Greece Tours - ignoring Foreign Office guidance which stated no one should travel unless it was essential.
LONDON, piraeus bus to Dion July 4 (Reuters) - The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday defended his decision to fly to Greece even though at that time the government advice was for UK nationals to avoid all but essential international travel.
"I don't know what the reaction of the British public (has been), I came here to have a quiet time to organise the house," he said in comments to local reporters carried by Sky News, referring to measures to make the property COVID-19 secure for lettings.
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Mr Johnson said on Wednesday night: ‘I'm in Pelion on essential business trying to Covid-proof my property in view of the upcoming letting season. I need to set up distancing measures at the property because they're taking it very seriously here.'
More than 400,000 sunseekers are thought to have had their Greek holidays ruined by government delays in relaxing the global travel warning, along with Greece's decision to ban direct flights from the UK until July 15.
Meanwhile last night hundreds gathered to mourn the deaths of at least 10 people in an apartment fire last week in Urumqi in the Xinjiang region, where residents were sealed in their buildings to try to stop the spread of Covid.
Speaking from his mountain-view villa in Pelion - which he lets out to tourists - Mr Johnson said Greek officials were happy to allow him in and the ban only seemed to apply to ‘bulk arrivals' of British holidaymakers.
As a Greek news website branded Stanley Johnson's trip ‘unbelievable', MPs urged Boris Johnson to explain why his father appears to be bound by a ‘different set of rules' to those imposed on ordinary holidaymakers.
Stanley Johnson, 79, who just months ago flew to his Greek villa in brazen defiance of the pandemic travel warnings, was spotted without a face covering as he popped into his local newsagents in West London on Tuesday for a newspaper.
Speaking in the Commons, Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael said: ‘This is simply further evidence that when it comes to following the rules, it is one rule for the Conservatives and minivan transfers one rule for everyone else.
Undeniable echoes of Tiananmen.' Luke de Pulford of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China said: 'I can't tear myself away from these videos.
Breathtaking courage. Chinese students demanding democracy.
Participants sang the national anthem and 'the Internationale' - a standard of the international communist movement - and chanted 'freedom will prevail' and Tailor Made Tour transport 'no to lockdowns, we want freedom', they said.
The university in the Chinese capital is the latest public location to be rocked by unprecedent civil unrest and Tailor Made Tour transport demonstrations on a scale unseen since the infamous Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 which ended in hundreds of deaths when the army was deployed to quell the uprising.
Footage circulated on social media showed crowds tearing down metal fences and barricades as they grappled with security officers who deployed their batons and tear gas in attempt to control the swell of humanity.
China is facing its largest anti-government protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre after activists filled the streets to openly call for taxi price Tailor Made Tour to airport an end to the rule of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
