A top lawyer has said Boris Johnson could face fines of thousands of pounds for lockdown breaches. Boris Johnson, along with chancellor Rishi Sunak, have both been fined for breaking the strict covid restrictions imposed on the country during the pandemic.
Both, along with the Prime Minister's wife Carrie, were issued with fixed penalty notices by the Metropolitan Police on Tuesday for breaking the rules in June 2020. All three confirmed they had paid their fines and apologised.
However human rights barrister Adam Wagner has said Boris Johnson could end up paying more than £10,000 in fines over the Downing Street parties if more were issued. Speaking on Sky News, Mr Wagner said: “Each one doubles, so if the Prime Minister attended six gatherings and five of which he’s at risk of getting a fixed penalty notice for – if he get’s a fixed penalty notice in order for each one then he could end up paying over £10,000.”
When asked whether he thinks there are further fines in the pipeline for Mr Johnson, the lawyer said: “I would be surprised if there aren’t. I always thought the birthday party was very straight forward, but there are other gatherings which are even more straight forward – the December 18 and the Christmas party and various leaving dos.
“I think there has already been fixed penalty notices given out for one of the leaving dos. If all of them were quite similar it seems to me there’s going to be a number of fixed penalty notices, probably for the Prime Minister as well.”
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