First fines arrive for Whitehall party lockdown offences
£50 fixed penalty notices have reportedly begun arriving in the email inboxes of junior civil servants.
£50 fixed penalty notices have reportedly begun arriving in the email inboxes of junior civil servants.
Downing Street is still refusing to admit that any laws were broken, even after the Met handed out 20 fines.
Pete Wishart said the optics of "parading your MPs in front of the Covid bereaved" on the day that you received FPNs was "dreadful".
Reminder: Johnson assured MPs that "rules were not broken" in December.
"Whatever happens next one fact has been established today. The police think Covid laws were broken in some of the very buildings where they were being set."
Those in attendance walked past families who lost loved ones to Covid, with one shouting: "Off to another party, are we?"
There could be around 20 names in a first wave of fines, expected at some point today.
It comes as the Met Police start compiling evidence and interviewing key witnesses on alleged lockdown-busting gatherings in No 10.
It comes as Jacob Rees-Mogg claimed the government parties allegedly held during Covid restrictions are “disproportionate fluff” and “fundamentally trivial”.
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