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The Title What is happening? What are the facts? Perspective Twenty fines will be issued as part of the police inquiry into Downing Street parties that broke Covid rules.Met police will not be saying who is fined or which events the fixed penalty notices relate to.Downing Street has said before that it would confirm if the prime minister was facing a fine.Fixed penalty notices are a sanction for breaking the law, and mean a fine, which needs to be paid within 28 days, or contested.The fines mean the PM misled the House of Commons in December – not known if…

PartyGate had dropped out of the news for some time – with the ongoing war in Ukraine dominating the papers, it was easy to forget the Downing Street scandal.

PartyGate fines show Boris Johnson ‘a proven liar’, says shadow minister The Guardian says Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, says the Met announcement about people being fined over Partygate shows that Boris Johnson is a “proven liar”. Many people will agree with Streeting. As the psephologist John Curtice wrote in the i last month, voters do believe Johnson has lied over Partygate. Curtice said: “According to Savanta ComRes, 65 per cent feel that throughout the furore the Prime Minister has either “only told lies” or at least that he has “lied more than he has told the truth”. In…

The Independent says Downing Street has refused to say if Boris Johnson will resign if he is fined over lockdown-breaching parties at No 10 after the police announced it is issuing fines.

The Times says PM has not yet been told whether he will be fined for lockdown-breaching Downing Street parties and is refusing to say whether he accepts that the law has been broken.

The Sun says SCOTLAND Yard will today hand out the first 20 fines in their probe of Downing Street parties during lockdown.

The Met Police are issuing 20 fines to individuals who unlawfully attended pirates in Downing Street and the Cabinet Office – confirming PM Boris Johnson misled the House of Commons on December 8.

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