“Partygate”. Boris Johnson and British minister fined for lockdown

The British chief executive confirmed this Tuesday that he had received a notification from Greater London Police indicating this The Prime Minister and Minister of Finance will receive notifications of fines.

More details so far about the aforementioned fines, including their value, are not known to the BBC, the BBC reported.

London Metropolitan Police are investigating alleged violations of Covid-19 containment rules at 12 parties that took place in 2020 and 2021 in Whitehall and Downing Street. So far, 50 fines have been imposed on British government officials.

Some of these meetings were held at a time when attendance at funerals and visits to hospitals were limited due to the pandemic. The scandal became public in late 2021 and became known in the press as “Partygate”.

On the top The British Prime Minister assured that all the rules had been adhered to, but he ended up apologizing in Parliament for his participation in one of the events.

Boris Johnson also apologized to Queen Elizabeth II for attending another party held on the eve of the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh on April 16, 2021.

The authorities had indicated that they would not reveal the names of the politicians targeted with fines, but the British government promised that it would release the information if Boris Johnson was one of the targets.

In the first reaction to these fines, Labor leader Keir Starmer has demanded the resignation of two Conservative Party leaders.

The Labor leader wrote on Twitter: “Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have repeatedly broken the law and so is the British people. Both should resign. The Conservatives are totally incapable of governing. The UK deserves better.”

turn, Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said Britain’s parliament should vote on a motion to assign blame to the prime minister.

“This is a government in crisis ignoring a country in crisis,” he said in a tweet on Twitter. “Parliament should be called to vote on a motion to assign blame to the Prime Minister.”

He also considered that Boris Johnson “cannot continue as prime minister”. He also tweeted, “No other leader in any other organization will be allowed to continue after a violation of the law of this magnitude.”