{"id":1146635,"date":"2021-12-23T13:49:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1146635"},"modified":"2021-12-23T13:49:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:49:38","slug":"london-police-to-be-investigated-for-failing-to-investigate-govt-christmas-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/london-police-to-be-investigated-for-failing-to-investigate-govt-christmas-party\/","title":{"rendered":"London Police to Be Investigated for Failing to Investigate Govt Christmas Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flondon-police-to-be-investigated-for-failing-to-investigate-govt-christmas-party%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1146635&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1235602003-e1640278238528-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">London\u2019s&nbsp;Metropolitan Police have referred themselves to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) after complaints about their refusal to alleged lockdown-busting Christmas parties at the Prime Minister\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n<p>The police declined to investigate an alleged party that took place at Downing Street on the 18th of December 2020, at a time when work Christmas parties were banned by the government and London was in Tier 3 lockdown, which banned residents from different households mixing indoors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The alleged party came to light nearly a year later on November 30th when the press reported that a party of between 40-50 people took place in Downing Street. This was shortly followed by a clip being leaked to the media which showed Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s former press secretary, Allegra Stratton, joking about the alleged gathering.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/08\/boris-denies-2020-lockdown-breaking-christmas-party-despite-video-leak-of-no-10-staff-joking-about-it\/\">leaked recording<\/a> showed a rehearsal press briefing from December 22nd, 2020, four days after the event took place and revealed around a dozen Number 10 staff joking about \u201ccheese and wine\u201d and the fact that the event \u201cdefinitely was not socially distanced\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This&nbsp;expos\u00e9 prompted Ms Stratton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/08\/boris-press-spox-allegra-stratton-resigns-from-govt-role-amid-swirling-lockdown-party-claims\/\">resignation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Delingpole: I Don\u2019t Trust the \u2018Downing Street Christmas Party\u2019 Story <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h4A1UB5JEy\">https:\/\/t.co\/h4A1UB5JEy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1468682042036654082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police have so far not investigated the event, claiming \u201cit is our policy not to routinely investigate retrospective breaches of the COVID-19 regulations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has confirmed that the Met police had referred themselves for investigation on the 17th of December.<\/p>\n<p>This referral followed a complaint to the IOPC by Green Party peer Baroness&nbsp;Jenny Jones of Moulsecoomb, who said the police not investigating the alleged party was a \u201cconflict of interest and a potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/12\/21\/met-refers-police-watchdog-handling-downing-street-christmas\/\">cover-up<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Baroness Jones also accused the police of having a \u201clikely role\u201d in \u201cfacilitating, aiding, and abetting the unlawful gathering\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There are multiple police officers as well as secret service operatives who guard Downing Street, and at least one police constable is on the door of Number 10 at all times when the Prime Minister is in residence \u2014 not to mention the vast array of CCTV cameras that protect the area \u2014 so it is highly likely that some police officers were aware of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, has rejected the idea that the police were complicit in the party, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2021\/12\/08\/didnt-officers-guarding-no-10-know-party-going-asks-baroness\/\">claiming<\/a> that \u201cthose outside would not hear a thing that was going on inside the building\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ricky Gervais called out &#8216;fascists&#8217; that shut down free speech, saying: &#8220;if you&#8217;re mildly conservative on Twitter people call you Hitler.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uuIxBGV9tV\">https:\/\/t.co\/uuIxBGV9tV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1282460429260922881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Comedian Ricky Gervais has weighed in on the party controversy, lambasting the government over their alleged lockdown breaches on a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rickygervais\/status\/1472990228692545544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1472990228692545544%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nme.com%2Fnews%2Ftv%2Fricky-gervais-rips-into-tories-on-livestream-3125524\">Twitter livestream<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDo you know what the worst thing is as well? Apart from the pandemic, and the devastation, and the deaths, and the strain on the health service, and people losing their livelihoods and that, the worst thing is the fucking c***s in charge do what they want. And I see all the parties they were having and all the stuff they were doing, and people saying \u2018that was the day I couldn\u2019t see my mum in hospital\u2019 or \u2018I couldn\u2019t go to my dad\u2019s funeral\u2019, because the people in charge, the posh privileged people in charge, were acting like f**king Charlie Sheen. I mean really f**king rubbing salt in the wound. And as I say, I don\u2019t get political, but they\u2019re all s**t. When are we going to stop taking \u2018went to Eton\u2019 as a qualification to run the country?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London\u2019s\u00a0Metropolitan Police have referred themselves to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) after complaints about their refusal to alleged lockdown-busting Christmas parties at the Prime Minister\u2019s residence. 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