New episode of the so-called "partygate".
Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into the Downing Street party scandal allegedly violating anti-Covid rules.
The commander of the Met Police, Cressida Dick, said that "a number of events" in the past two years in Downing Street and Whitehall have come under the lens of the police force. or not a violation of the law. In announcing the start of the investigation, the Scotland Yard commander stated that full cooperation has been assured by the Cabinet Office and that the police action will be "impartial" and without fear of pressure from Downing Street.
JOHNSON: "COLLABORATE" - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, according to a spokesman for Downing Street, said the premier, his staff and the Tory government intend to "cooperate fully". Scotland Yard's decision to open a preliminary investigation, the prime minister said, is "entirely right".
THE ATTACKS - The spokesman has not however evoked any hypothesis of steps backwards on the part of Johnson. Yet sources cited by Sky News reported alleged discontent among some ministers not forewarned by the premier about the start of the investigation.
Meanwhile, the opposition remains at gunpoint: the opening of an investigation by Scotland Yard on the partygate reflects the prospect of "potential criminal behavior", with heavy "accusatory shadows on the highest office" in the United Kingdom, that as prime minister held by Boris Johnson, denounced the deputy leader of the Labor opposition, Angela Rayner, during yet another urgent question to the municipalities on the matter, launching a new attack against the Tory government.
(Unioneonline / D)