This content was published on April 23, 2022 – 00:52 April 23, 2022 – 00:52
London, 23 April (EFE).- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has received no further economic sanctions from London’s Metropolitan Police for breaching rules on detention at social events during the pandemic, Downing Street confirmed this Saturday.
A spokesman for his residence and office had to clarify the matter today after British television broadcaster ITV announced its sources said the Tory leader had been fined for another social gathering over drinks in the garden at the headquarters had been government, in May 2020.
Regarding this incident, the “premier” had to apologize at the time and assure that he “implicitly believed” that it was an act of labor.
Johnson, who has just returned to London from a two-day trip to India, was fined by Scotland Yard earlier this month for attending a birthday party (his) held at his home during lockdown.
His wife Carrie Johnson, mother of his two minor children, also received a sanction, as did the head of the economy, Rishi Sunak, among fifty sentences already imposed by police.
Johnson is the first sitting British Prime Minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law.
MPs last Thursday in the House of Commons agreed to launch an inquiry into whether the Conservative leader had lied to Parliament when he assured that he was unaware that parties holding public office were breaking strict anti-Covid rules had.
This inquiry was approved without a vote after the leader of the House of Commons asked if anyone opposed it and no one objected.
Earlier, at the last moment, the executive corrected its original intention to delay the inquiry after confirming that many Tory MPs did not support the measure. EFE
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