{"id":410137,"date":"2022-01-26T07:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T07:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=410137"},"modified":"2022-01-26T07:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T07:05:13","slug":"uk-pm-to-face-mps-as-lockdown-parties-report-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/uk-pm-to-face-mps-as-lockdown-parties-report-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"UK PM to face MPS as lockdown parties report looms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Boris Johnson faces more questions about No 10 parties from MPs later, as the results of an internal inquiry into possible lockdown breaches are due.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is understood the highly-anticipated report, by senior official Sue Gray, is largely complete and could be published as early as Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But it is not expected to be revealed ahead of Prime Minister’s Questions at noon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It comes after the Met Police announced its own investigation on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Commissioner Cressida Dick said the force was looking into potential breaches of Covid laws at a number of events in government buildings since 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The police probe heaps further pressure on the PM, after weeks of headlines about gatherings in Downing Street when laws preventing social mixing were in place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The PM has apologised for attending a “bring your own booze” event on 20 May 2020, during the first lockdown, saying he thought it was a “work event”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fresh allegations of a\u00a0birthday party being held for the prime minister in June 2020<\/a>\u00a0have also come to light.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boris Johnson faces more questions about No 10 parties from MPs later, as the results of an internal inquiry into possible lockdown breaches are due. It is understood the highly-anticipated report, by senior official Sue Gray, is largely complete and could be published as early as Wednesday. But it is not expected to be revealed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":410138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-410137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410139,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410137\/revisions\/410139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}