Downing Street staff fined for attending lockdown busting parties are ‘furious’ Boris Johnson has only been handed one fine – despite attending multiple events.
The Metropolitan Police sent out 204 questionnaires during the course of its partygate investigation and issued 126 fines after looking into 10 gatherings.
Junior staff are said to be furious that some of them attended the same lockdown busting events as the prime minister and have received multiple fines. ‘Yet the PM was drinking and enjoying himself along with everyone else and pretty much gets away with it.’Mr Johnson was only sent two questionnaires by police, the Mirror reported on Thursday, when the Met concluded its partygate investigation.
While the other was for the alleged party held in the Downing Street flat on November 13, 2020 to celebrate Dominic Cummings’ departure, but the prime minister did not receive a fine for this.
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