The thing that is hard to understand is this.

The Met MUST have known of all the party-type social goings-on at No 10.

I find it hard to believe that the Police Officers on duty did not seek an early steer from Senior officers.
That being so, why did not someone such as Dick go to the PM & PPS and have a tactful word early on eg “You really cannot do this as we would, in fairness, be forced to intervene to uphold the laws you passed even handedly”

Did she (or a DAC Protection and Security) not do that
We know these parties were still going on months later.

What were the private conversations between police officers on duty, their senior officers to whom they report and those at the very top?
Preserving the evidence quickly is a key part of an effective investigation

You don’t dilly dally & leave it to a non-police investigator (and certainly not one who has previously expressed approval for double deleting evidence re FOIs) unless you want the evidence to disappear

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