In a way, what the Met has permitted, parallel criminal law regimes, a normal one for normal people, and a special one for special people, is as profound an attack on the rule of law as Johnson's suspension of Parliament was on democracy.
I use the word "permitted" because I believe the Met is carrying out the will, be it expressed or just understood, of others, likely others in Cabinet.
The Met is gathering evidence in relation to a party attended by one of these two people but not the other. Why might that be? 
One swallow doesn't make a summer. That the Met is gathering evidence of a party attended by a junior black politician but not of a party attended by a senior white politician doesn't establish racism. But it really, really doesn't look good.
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