Partygate: Johnson faces no additional motion as police investigation concludes
Downing Road workers who acquired fines for attending the identical lockdown events as Boris Johnson have reacted with fury after the prime minister escaped additional sanctions on Thursday.
A number one knowledgeable on Covid legal guidelines has additionally questioned the “inconsistency” of the Metropolitan Police fines on studying that whereas some junior workers have amassed as many as 5 fines, the PM and different senior figures prevented recent motion – regardless of insider accounts that that they had attended the identical occasions.
The total findings of Sue Grey, the senior civil servant finishing up a wider report into the scandal, are actually anticipated as quickly as subsequent week.
Police stated a complete of 126 fines have been issued to 83 individuals over occasions, spanning eight dates between Could 2020 and April 2021.
Describing the result of the Partygate inquiry as a “bit odd”, barrister Adam Wagner stated it appeared that Mr Johnson had prevented fines regardless of attending unlawful leaving drink occasions.
Downing Road workers livid as Johnson escapes Partygate fines
Downing Road workers who acquired fines for attending the identical lockdown events as Boris Johnson have reacted with fury after the prime minister escaped additional sanctions on Thursday.
“It’s a joke,” one No 10 supply advised The Unbiased. “He advised individuals to ‘let their hair down’ and revel in their drinks which they’d earned for ‘beating again the virus’.”
They stated the prime minister had participated in socialising with officers and advisers in a fashion that had been considered an endorsement of partying after work.
“He’s a person of little or no integrity,” they added, referring to his dealing with of the Partygate affair.
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