"You won't find a single inhabitant of Riga who, while in the old city at night, hasn't encountered a band of drunken and bellowing Brits," said the leader of the small Conservative Party, Modris Lujans, in a statement. In a speech given in Riga on Wednesday, the 80-year-old monarch said However, the Conservative Party said most of the British tourists who come to Latvia seem to do so only for the cheap booze and lively nightlife in Riga. If the queen were to accept the invitation and visit Riga by night, and politely, the party said.
The queen left Latvia for Estonia at noon on Thursday without taking up the Conservatives' offer, which she was highly unlikely to have even seen.
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