British police announced on Tuesday that they would not reopen an investigation into former Prime Minister Boris Johnson into possible other breaches of anti-Covid health restrictions.
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Scotland Yard, on the other hand, decided to reopen an investigation into a Christmas party at the Conservative Party headquarters in December 2020, after a video was published last month showing party members dancing and joking about the anti-corruption restrictions. -Covid. Another rally in Parliament on December 8, 2020 will also be investigated.
Conversely, after examining new elements reported in May by government services, on possible violations between June 2020 and May 2021 at Downing Street and Checkers, the country residence of British Prime Ministers, the police of the valley of the Thames and London concluded that the said events did “not fulfill the retrospective criteria to open an investigation”, according to a press release from Scotland Yard.
The two police services “continue to reserve the right to revisit these assessments if new significant evidence” emerges, nevertheless specifies the text.
A Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry concluded last month that Boris Johnson had deliberately lied to Parliament about the Downing Street parties during Covid by claiming that all health rules had been followed.
A few days earlier, Boris Johnson informed of these conclusions, had resigned from his post as an MP, and cried political assassination.
Sanctioned by a police fine, he was forced to resign from his post as Prime Minister in July 2022 after a succession of scandals, including that of the Downing Street parties.