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The Met's partygate probe has left the Tory party in limbo

26 January 2022

1:57 AM

26 January 2022

1:57 AM

The Metropolitan Police’s decision to investigate lockdown parties undoubtedly makes things more serious for Downing Street. It is now harder to argue, as some supporters of Boris Johnson had begun to do privately, that these matters are fundamentally too trivial to account for a Prime Minister departing if the police have been called in to investigate.

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