Which 'partygate' gatherings and parties broke lockdown rules?
19.05.2022 - 17:05
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Police have announced that they have finished the investigation i nto the parties at Downing Street and across Whitehall during the pandemic. Dozens of fines have been issued and the Metropolitan police have finished their investigation into lockdown-breaking parties.
Fines have been issued for at least eight of the 12 events under investigation. The names of most of the people fined over coronavirus restriction breaches have not been made public.
However, it was previously confirmed that Prime Ministe r Boris Johnson, his wife Carrie, and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were fined over a birthday bash in the Cabinet Room on June 19 2020. The police identified the following events as breaching restrictions:
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A leaked email from the Prime Minister’s principal private secretary Martin Reynolds showed No 10 staff were invited to “bring your own booze” to an event in the Downing Street garden.
Mr Johnson has admitted he was there for 25 minutes, but said he thought it was a “work event” to thank staff for their efforts during the pandemic.
Breach: Regulation 6 of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020. Restriction on leaving, or being outside of, the place where you were living without reasonable excuse.
A gathering in the 70 Whitehall building to mark the departure of a No 10 private secretary, which had not previously been disclosed.
Breach: Regulation 7 of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020. Restriction on participating in an indoor gathering consisting of two or more people.
Downing Street has admitted staff “gathered briefly” in the Cabinet