The gathering on 16 April 2021 was a leaving party for the former No 10 director of communications James Slack.
Meanwhile, Monday’s Daily Telegraph claims the former director of ethics in the cabinet office, Helen MacNamara, was fined in connection with a leaving party the year before - in June 2020.
Ms MacNamara has declined to comment.
Blimey, another of BJ’s “team” breaks the law … !
Of course, BJ would not be aware of her transgression … 
Why are these people not named and how much they were fined I bet not got the maximum?
In general , I’d say it would be unfair to name and shame all those who were invited to and attended so-called “No 10 Parties”. However, those who organised them and those who authorised them should be identified.
It seems, though, that the Met prefer to keep everyone, except themselves and the recipients of fines, uninformed:
Sue Gray is being kept in the dark about which Downing Street parties have attracted fines, as officials began to receive £50 penalties for attending illegal lockdown gatherings, following the Metropolitan police investigation.
Emails were received by some partygoers this week, after the police said they were issuing 20 penalty notices to those they had a “reasonable belief” attended gatherings during lockdown.
However, the Met is refusing to reveal which parties have attracted fines. It is understood that Gray, the senior civil servant carrying out the inquiry into suspected Downing Street parties during lockdown, is also not being informed which events have reached the bar of criminality.
She is due to update and publish her report when the police investigation is complete, but is not expecting to receive full information on which of 12 parties under investigation and which officials, aides and potentially politicians have been fined.
The Cabinet Office and No 10 are also unaware which, if any, of its current employees have been issued with penalties.
No 10 has committed to disclosing whether Boris Johnson and Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, have received fines, but otherwise officials are not being encouraged to go public or even tell their line managers if they are handed penalties.
The Met Police are not providing details of who will be sent a fine or about the events.
The fines relate to specific breaches, rather than individuals, meaning one person could receive more than one fine.
Just a big whitewash
And I’m wondering if Johnson grassed up Sunak to take the heat off him on Partygate?
And if he went to the Ukraine to get himself some good publicity by exploiting their misery?
Operation Save Big Dog indeed?
Why is no one being named if it was some plebs from a housing estate they most certainly would be named?
Hi
Exactly right.
Great Post.
Latest news……
Johnson and Sunak are to receive fixed penalty notices,
from what I have read about parties quite right too 
Let’s hope that it’s more than 1 each, too … 
Sir Keir says “Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have broken the law and repeatedly lied to the British public.” - not that it will bother BJ but I would think that Shifty might be embarassed - his carefully cultured image is slipping.
Hi
I do not hope that the PM has been fined,I had hoped that he complied with his own Rules.
I hope that his wife is given the highest penalty for organising a party.
What I find absolutely disgusting is that the Queen complies with all the rules and sat alone at the funeral of the love of her life.
She set an example to all except Boris and the elite.
Hahaha… Carrie won’t like that … 
I expect there’ll be a scramble to say they should resign.
Well, Johnson is the first serving prime minister of the UK to be sanctioned for breaking the law.
Sadly, fixed penalty notices for breaking Covid laws do not result in a criminal record - no chance of mugshots then … 
Fixed penalty notices are nowt but a slap on the wrist. Good, now that’s over and done with, can we get on with some serious Governmental work, please?
Of course he should resign, his behaviour has been despicable
Not only breaking the rules he created, and laughing and partying while the rest of us couldn’t see our dying loved ones or give them proper funerals.
Think of that picture of the Queen on her own at her husbands funeral then multiply that heartbreak by the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people with their hearts breaking while he laughed and joined in his parties
But even more serious to the integrity of our country is that he told a direct, blatant lie about it to Parliament
We have a PM who broke the law and lied to Parliament about it, so yes, the first serious governmental work should be to chuck him out on his ear
We are in life and death situations with the war in Europe, Covid and people choosing between food and heat. The last thing we need is a PM with no integrity who lies to us and Parliament to cover his own backside.
My guess is he knew this was coming and threw Rishi under the bus to try to save his own hide
But if the Johnson lovers triumph and he stays as PM, then that’s the end of any pretence of decency, democracy or moral standards in our country
It’s just a jungle and a chumocracy where the rich and powerful can do whatever they like with no consequences
Backed by their cronies whose support they buy with tax breaks and hand outs at the expense of the rest us.
And by sycophants and hypocrites who will just accept any vile behaviour from “Boris” as long as they can keep him and their beloved Tory party in power.
I think those who continue to support him are as much a disgrace to our country as he is
@Maree
I agree with both your posts Maree and I speak as one who was prepared to give Johnson the benefit of the doubt when he was elected although some people I respect like Max Hastings called him a liar .
He is a liar, he lied to parliament and all of us when he could easily have owned up and I am embarrassed to have a liar as PM speaking on my behalf on the world stage.
How can we call liars like Putin to account when our own PM is a liar whose word can not be trusted.
@Meg I agree with everything you say here, I was ready to give Boris the benefit of the doubt too. I am appalled and so disappointed in him and with the Tory party for voting him in as leader in the first place.
He received a Fixed Penalty Notice, not a prison sentence for murder. How many FPN’s are issued in a day due to people parking in the wrong place. Probably majority of the MP’s have received them at some time or another.
He received the FPN for having a piece of cake on his birthday with the people he worked with, like so many other people would have done up and down the country if they had been working all day with them. It was just after he had come out of hospital after nearly losing his life. He didn’t consider it a party as all it was was having a piece of cake and he said, in the HoC he hadn’t attended a party, which he didn’t. The Times reported on the incident way back in 2020, so why the big deal about it now.
Yes there’s a war in Europe and we have an economical crisis, don’t know about you, but I’d prefer our PM to concentrate on that rather than a silly piece of cake.
