More Met Police partygate fines have been handed out to Whitehall civil servants who attended the notorious ‘bring your own booze’ party in Downing Street’s gardens during lockdown.
According to reports from ITN News, emails relating to the May 20, 2020 garden party have begun landing in staff inboxes.
But it is unclear whether the Prime Minister has received a second a Fixed Penalty Notice for the event he attended.
Johnson has already been fined for breaking lockdown rules in June 2020, when attending his own birthday celebrations in the Cabinet room of Downing Street, one of 50 fines already issued.
The Metropolitan Police said it would not release any further updates on the partygate investigation, codenamed Operation Hillman, during the next fortnight leading to the local government elections.
Downing Street said Johnson has not received a fine in the latest tranche of Fixed Penalty Notices.
If he received another fine it will be double his first, which was £100 reduced to £50 because he paid it within 14 days.
The SNP’s Deputy Westminster Leader Kirsten Oswald MP said: “The scale of law-breaking in Downing Street is staggering."
She added: “There’s a clear pattern that while the public made difficult sacrifices and followed the rules, the Tories partied away without a care.
“With reports that further fines are being issued by the Met Police relating to boozy lockdown parties, Boris Johnson must come clean over whether or not he has also been issued with yet another fine.”
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