Carrie Johnson "should be named" if she is fined over lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street, Keir Starmer has said.
Speaking to broadcasters on Thursday, the Labour leader said the public have a right to know if the Prime Minister's wife is hit with a fixed penalty notice.
He said: “If Carrie Johnson gets a fixed penalty notice, then of course it should be made public.
“My focus is on the Prime Minister because he is the one who sets the culture, he is the one who oversaw this criminality at his home and his office, he is the one that came to Parliament and said all rules were complied with, which is clearly not the case.
“So I do think Carrie Johnson should be named if she gets a penalty notice, but my focus is laser-like on the Prime Minister.”
It comes after Scotland Yard confirmed this week that 20 fines would be issued in relation to law-breaking parties in Whitehall and No10 during Covid restrictions Boris Johnson introduced.
The Prime Minister is not thought to be among those fined in the first tranche of penalty notices announced this week.
Met Police cops are investigating a total of 20 gatherings. One includes a birthday party for Mr Johnson on June 19, during which it was claimed Mrs Johnson "ambushed" the PM with a cake.
Police are also probing the so-called "Abba" party said to have taken place in the No11 Downing Street flat to celebrate the exit of the PM's former aide Dominic Cummings. The pop group's Winner Takes It All was said to have been blasted loudly.
Mr Starmer was in Bury to launch Labour's local elections campaign ahead of the town hall votes on Thursday May 5.
He said at a rally that the average British family this year will be £2,620 worse off under the Tories and "we need change".
He said: "We need to get Britain back on track. I’m beyond proud and privileged to be Leader of the Labour Party.
"But I don’t want to be Leader of the Opposition. I want Labour in power. Labour in power changing lives."
Meanwhile, confusion reigns in government as ministers make conflicting statements about whether the Met Police fines being issued mean laws were broke.
Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab have both accepted that the fines mean lockdown was broken.
But the PM and Health Secretary Sajid Javid have refused to confirm as much.
Speaking to reporters at Barking Community Hospital in Essex, Mr Javid said: “The police investigation… into events in Downing Street, it’s a live investigation. It’s still going on.
“I do know of course like everyone else that at least 20 fines have been issued so far but it is a live investigation. I think it’s never good practice for ministers to comment on it.”
Asked why there was so much “confusion” in Government about the matter, Mr Javid said: “I don’t think there’s any confusion.
“I mean, if you’re asking me in general about fixed penalty notices, when those are issued of course it means the police issuing that has come to a conclusion, and that’s purely a police matter – not a ministerial matter.”
