No 10 has mentioned ministers weren’t concerned within the determination to go to the police considerations over occasions in Chequers and Downing Avenue following a overview of the previous prime minister’s official diary.
Labour’s chief mentioned Mr Johnson’s referral to police over potential additional lockdown breaches raises new questions.
Sir Keir Starmer, who was visiting Scotland on Friday, mentioned the general public was “fed as much as the again tooth” with tales in regards to the former prime minister.
Sir Keir instructed broadcasters: “I believe individuals are fed as much as the again tooth with tales about Boris Johnson. The center of this can be a easy reality that, throughout the nation, folks made huge sacrifices throughout Covid.
“Some folks not going to the beginning of their child, not going to the funeral of one in all their shut relations.
“These are deeply private issues and growing revelations about Boris Johnson, I believe, simply add to that sense of harm and individuals are fed up with it.
“I do suppose there are questions now about why have these allegations not come out earlier than, all these allegations.
“Clearly, there can be investigations, I perceive that.
“The core of this can be a very human feeling of 1 rule for us, which we obey, one other rule for Boris Johnson and people on the high of the Tory Celebration.”
The Cupboard Workplace has mentioned ministers had “performed no position” within the determination at hand data to the police, with the referral as a substitute made by officers performing inside the Civil Service Code.
Mr Johnson’s workplace has claimed the dealing with of the state of affairs was “weird and unacceptable”, and the occasions in query had been inside the guidelines.
“It seems some inside authorities have determined to make unfounded options each to the police and to the Privileges Committee,” an announcement mentioned.
“Many will conclude that this has all of the hallmarks of yet one more politically-motivated stitch-up.”
Cupboard Workplace officers handed considerations to the Metropolitan Police and Thames Valley Police after the brand new data got here to gentle throughout a overview by taxpayer-funded attorneys forward of the Covid public inquiry.
The Privileges Committee, which is conducting an inquiry into whether or not Mr Johnson lied to Parliament in regards to the partygate scandal, has additionally been knowledgeable.
The Instances reported on Friday that Mr Johnson had been making ready to launch {a photograph} of 1 specific Downing Avenue backyard go to in June 2020, which the paper mentioned confirmed the then-prime minister assembly his mom and sister for lunch.
Mr Johnson believed that the picture – which has no longer been launched – would have confirmed that every one guidelines had been adopted, the paper mentioned.
