Scotland Yard has responded after damning new Partygate footage emerged yesterday.
The video, shared exclusively by the Mirror, showed how Tory officials joked about their lockdown rule-bending as they partied in Conservative Campaign HQ in central London. At least 24 revellers were seen, including two named on Boris Johnson’s controversial resignation honours list.
In the footage, a man and woman dancing together twirl past a sign that reads "Please keep your distance". It is believed this gathering took place on December 14, 2020 as strict rules remained in place across the UK.
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A still picture was seen previously from the event which formed part of a Met Police investigation, and no fines were issued due to the force only having still images. But now, the Mirror reports that Scotland Yard is "considering" the Partygate footage.
A Scotland Yard spokesperson said on Sunday: “We are aware of the footage and are considering it.”
It comes after the Tory minister Michael Gove was forced to issue an apology on Sunday for the event, describing it as "terrible" and "indefensible". The senior Cabinet minister said the footage is "completely out of order" but declined to be say whether the Metropolitan Police should launch a new probe, the Mirror reports.
On Sunday a spokesperson for the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group also hit out at the footage showing Tory activists living in "a parallel universe". Amos Waldman, who lost his grandmother in April 2020, told Times Radio: "I was appalled and sickened by the video.
"It's not a huge surprise given we know what was happening, but the imagery of it was pretty powerful, and completely at odds with what the rest of the country and certainly we as bereaved families and our loved ones were going through at the time."
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