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AZProgressive

(29,352 posts)
Wed Dec 8, 2021, 07:11 PM Dec 2021

Met Police will NOT investigate Downing Street Christmas party due to 'lack of evidence'

The Metropolitan Police have said it will not investigate allegations of a party at Downing Street when lockdown rules banned social gatherings.

The force claims this is due to an “absence of evidence” and its policy not to investigate retrospective breaches of coronavirus regulations.

The Mirror revealed the bash on December 18 last year when London was in Tier 3 lockdown rules.

No 10 tried to insinuate it didn’t happen - by claiming whatever took place wasn’t a party.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-met-police-not-investigate-25650859

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Met Police will NOT investigate Downing Street Christmas party due to 'lack of evidence' (Original Post) AZProgressive Dec 2021 OP
It's all going swimmingly: Emrys Dec 2021 #1
Allegra Stratton seems to have been made a scapegoat here T_i_B Dec 2021 #3
Undoubtedly. Emrys Dec 2021 #4
Except for the party video going around and many people ranting about this, abqtommy Dec 2021 #2

T_i_B

(14,804 posts)
3. Allegra Stratton seems to have been made a scapegoat here
Thu Dec 9, 2021, 07:34 AM
Dec 2021

Even though she said at a press conference that she went home on that date!

Hopefully people see all this and start to wake to how much the Tories consider themselves to be above the rules.

Emrys

(7,975 posts)
4. Undoubtedly.
Thu Dec 9, 2021, 08:03 AM
Dec 2021

The post she resigned from was "government adviser" after they ditched the idea of US-style press conferences, which would have been her original role when hired. Maybe they realized that it would be impossible for a press spoke to respond credibly on the record to the various scandals this government has been embroiled in.

I can't muster much sympathy for her. Her husband is James Forsyth, political editor of The Spectator, and she showed herself to be a nasty piece of work in her previous career:



Once she's dried her tears, she'll no doubt fall on her feet in some right-wing gravy train position.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
2. Except for the party video going around and many people ranting about this,
Wed Dec 8, 2021, 07:39 PM
Dec 2021

BO "Ya doesn't hafta call me Johnson" JO is still wallowing in DeNile, which isn't just a
river in Egypt!

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