Commissioner Cressida Dick said the force was looking into “potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations” in No 10 and across Whitehall over the past two years.
She said the Met would “police without fear or favour” and provide updates “at significant points” in the investigation.
I’m not expecting any damning revelations about BJ from a police enquiry nor any criminal charges to be brought against Ms BJ but confirmation (and details) that all published allegations of “Party-Central” are true would be welcome.
The trouble is, this could work in Boris Johnson’s favour.
Because it is going to delay the Sue Gray report by several weeks
And he’s probably got his fingers crossed that by the time it comes out the anger and howls for him to resign will have calmed down a bit and he’ll be able to weasel out of it
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Johnson supporters engineered having a police enquiry for just that reason
The chumocracy, corruption and cover ups in this country really stink and I think Johnson will get away with it because him and his type have the power and influence and stick together
Unless Cummings keeps drip feeding more revelations😱
Remind me never to cross Cummings, he’s scary in revenge mode
I’ve been watching Sky News and The Commons arguing over this. I’m kinda confused. Lock down was in effect. Everyone knows there was a party, they even know it was BYOB. So what is there for the police to investigate? He broke the rules and did so spectacularly. I think this is a case of seeding as much confusion as possible to distract. IMHO
How bad could it get? Here’s the worst case scenario
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It’s for the police to work out what they think is important to their investigation - taking into account what is necessary and proportionate in the circumstances.
If the Metropolitan Police find evidence of wrongdoing at Downing Street, the politics of that will be inevitably more significant than the financial impact of any fixed penalty tickets they dish out.
But if officers were to find that their investigation had been deliberately hindered in some way or another - perhaps by the destruction or concealing of information relating to alleged parties - that could lead to an investigation into perverting the course of justice.
That’s the very serious crime of getting in the way of the truth - and it hangs over every investigation.
And back in 2013 the former cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife were jailed for exactly this crime when they hid the facts about a speeding offence.
Well, there’s been plenty of concealment going on from BJ, Mrs BJ, ministers and the merry band of “staff” …
Yes, I agree, it’s a waste of police time, the guilt is surely there for all to see
The Conservatives are just trying to prevaricate in the hope the hue and cry dies down and he can wriggle out of it, as usual
If he had any decency he’d just fess up and resign for the sake of the country, but he doesn’t, does he? Have any decency I mean?
And I think it’s a ruddy dangerous situation having someone with no decency as our leader with the Ukraine situation getting worse and maybe war in Europe
In a war situation we need a leader with integrity we can trust, and that’s not Boris Johnson, is it?
I bet he’s thanking his lucky stars and Putin for the Ukraine is providing a distraction from his double birthday parties
I thought the same thing as I watched this morning. Besides being decent. Speaking as a man, he needs to grow a pair. I hate an “adult” who can’t admit they messed up(family friendly version of what I wanted to say). I have immense respect for someone who does take responsibility. Apparently, my view is skewed, or so they’re trying to make me believe. I other words, don’t believe your lying eyes, trust us this is what really happened.
Cummings is working to his own agenda. He is not a supporter or a member of the Conservative party anyway.
Booting out Boris now would be catastrophic for the country, all the damage is being made over Boris’ character, not his policies which shows just were this campaign is being lead from. If you want to get rid of Boris then be prepared for a Starmer government because thats what you are going to get.
Of course he welcomes it, cos it will postpone the Sue Gray enquiry and he’s hoping by the time his pigeons come home to roost he’ll be able to weasel out of it
As it says in red at the bottom of that article, no apologies or contrition from him now, back to his arrogant Teflon self and two fingers up to us peasants who kept to the rules at huge personal cost
At the moment, Boris is the best of a bad bunch, personally I would like Steve Baker as PM but thats not going to happen, more than likely it will be Jeremy Hunt, the arched remainer.
I don’t have much faith in Liz Truss as PM, she was a remainer too, so was Gove and Sunak is raising taxes so I don’t want him either.
In an ideal world, I would have Farage any day but I don’t think that would happen either.
I don’t have much faith in her full stop! Just look at what she’s done so far regarding the Protocol … nada, ziltch, zip, bugger all except allow the EU to delay negotiations until late May (after the NI elections).
I don’t have much faith in the Met either for that matter.
