{"id":1408002,"date":"2022-03-29T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408002"},"modified":"2022-03-29T16:15:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:15:05","slug":"uk-police-fine-20-people-for-downing-street-partygate-lockdown-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-police-fine-20-people-for-downing-street-partygate-lockdown-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Police Fine 20 People for Downing Street &#039;Partygate&#039; Lockdown Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fuk-police-fine-20-people-for-downing-street-partygate-lockdown-violations%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=1408002&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">LONDON (AP) \u2013 British police are fining 20 people over parties held by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff during coronavirus lockdowns, and say that more people could face penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police force said Tuesday it wouldn\u2019t identify the recipients of the fixed penalty notices, though Johnson\u2019s office said it would reveal if he gets one.<\/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>Opponents, and some members of the governing Conservative Party, have said that Johnson should resign if he is issued a fine for breaking rules he imposed on the rest of the country during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of politicians and officials have been investigated over allegations that the government flouted its own pandemic restrictions. Police sent questionnaires to more than 100 people, including the prime minister, and interviewed witnesses as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming that it had authorized 20 fines, the police force said officers were working through a \u201csignificant amount of investigative material\u201d and more people could face penalties later.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The \u201cpartygate\u201d scandal had left Johnson\u00b4s tenure precarious before Russia launched a war in Ukraine more than a month ago that gave Britain\u00b4s politicians more urgent priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u00b4s grip on power was shaken by public anger over revelations that his staff held \u201cbring your own booze\u201d office parties, birthday celebrations and \u201cwine time Fridays\u201d in 2020 and 2021 while millions in Britain were barred from meeting with friends and family because of his government\u00b4s COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has denied any wrongdoing, but he is alleged to have been at several of the dozen events in his 10 Downing St. office and other government buildings that are being investigated by the police. He has acknowledged attending a \u201cbring your own booze\u201d party in the Downing Street garden in May 2020 during the first lockdown, but insisted he believed it would be a work event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boris Claims \u2018Nobody Told Me\u2019 Boozy Lockdown Party Wasn\u2019t Work-Related<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DaROP7keTn\">https:\/\/t.co\/DaROP7keTn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1483484331305840645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In January, civil servant Sue Gray published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/31\/bojo-partygate-report-serious-failures-by-govt-to-follow-its-own-lockdown-rules\/\">report<\/a> into some of the gatherings, the ones not under criminal investigation. She said \u201cfailures of leadership and judgment\u201d in the Johnson\u2019s government allowed events to occur that should not have happened.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Johnson spokesman Max Blain declined to say whether the prime minister would quit if he is fined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u00b4s a hypothetical situation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the opposition Labour Party, said the party revelations were \u201ca slap in the face\u201d to millions who had followed the national coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe culture is set from the very top,\u201d she said. \u201cThe buck stops with the prime minister, who spent months lying to the British public, which is why he has got to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Brady, a spokeswoman for the group COVID-1919 Bereaved Families for Justice, said Johnson \u201cshould have resigned months ago over this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy dragging it out longer, all he is doing is pouring more salt on the wounds of those who have already suffered so much,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Farage Warns Boris \u2018Partygate\u2019 Nothing Compared to Greater Scandal of Tory Failure to Govern Conservatively<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2hLCIhQrSl\">https:\/\/t.co\/2hLCIhQrSl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1490973686958014469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2013 British police are fining 20 people over parties held by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff during coronavirus lockdowns, and say that more people could face<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}