Giving evidence to the London assembly’s police and crime committee, House said there had simply been insufficient evidence to give Johnson more than one fine, even though he had attended events for which others were fined.
The Met police's interim commissioner, Sir Stephen House, remained bullish in his defence of the force's investigation into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street and Whitehall.
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