The PM received the questionnaire from the Metropolitan Police which will be answered ‘as required’
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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, received this Friday night a questionnaire from the London Metropolitan Police about the ‘Partygate’ scandal, the parties held at number 10 de Downing Street.
“We can confirm that the Prime Minister has received a questionnaire from the Metropolitan Police. He will respond as necessary,” said a spokesman for number 10, as reported by the English newspaper ‘The Daily Mail’.
The London Metropolitan Police has sent this document to the British Prime Minister and has requested “a explanation of the recipient’s participation in the events“, demanding that, since the form has legal status, “it must be answered truthfully.”
A spokesman for 10 Downing Street previously told the newspaper ‘The Independent‘ that responses provided to the London Police would be “treated as written statements made with caution”as Johnson could face a fine if he doesn’t offer his testimony.
In this sense, the prime minister has a period of seven days to respond to the questionnaire, which has been sent by email to more than 50 people investigated by the parties held in Downing Street during the pandemic, although being contacted does not imply being finedaccording to the BBC.
This very Thursday, the head of Scotland Yard, Cressida Dick has tendered her resignationa week after the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, showed his rejection of how he had handled a series of scandals within the Metropolitan Police.
His resignation as head of Scotland Yard comes not only amid the Christmas party scandal at 10 Downing Street, but also amid criticism from those who they do not believe that he has been able to stop a series of scandals of racism, homophobia and sexism within the London Police, including the murder of Sarah Everard by officer Wayne Couzens.
In parallel, this week, the former British Prime Minister John Major has considered that the current ‘premier’, Boris Johnson, “violated the restrictions” imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic with the alleged parties held in Downing Street.
Major, a Conservative, has also accused the government of thinking “it didn’t have to obey the rules” and has warned that “blatant lies generate contempt”, while lamenting that “day after day the public has been asked to believe in the incredible”.
“The claim that there is one law for the government and another for everyone else it is politically lethal, and it hits the target,” added the former prime minister, who held the post between 1990 and 1997, according to the BBC.
The alleged parties in Downing Street have put Johnson on the ropes. Sue Gray’s report on the matter, published in part, concludes that the Johnson’s government made “failures of leadership and judgment”while he has stressed that the Executive’s behavior around the meetings “is difficult to justify.”
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