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Jan 25 • 24 tweets • 12 min read
🚨 BREAKING: Police poised to investigate eight alleged Downing Street parties, Telegraph understands

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🔴Dame Cressida Dick is expected to confirm that her officers will investigate eight out of 17 events at which coronavirus lockdown rules were allegedly broken.

Follow the hearing live on our @TelePolitics liveblog, it's currently free to read 👇
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The Met Police has come under intense pressure to launch a criminal investigation following a wave of allegations of gatherings in Downing Street and Whitehall during lockdown,

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🚨Downing Street parties to be investigated by police, confirms Dame Cressida Dick:

"I can confirm that the Met is now investigating a number of events that took place at Downing Street and Whitehall in the last two years"

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🔴 NEW: Dame Cressida declines to say which parties are being investigated and which ones are not, "but are investigating a number, and there are several that we are not investigating"

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🔴 NEW: The Sue Gray probe will continue despite the announcement by the Metropolitan Police, reports @benrileysmith

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Cressida Dick is asked whether any concern was raised with her or any of her officers about what was going on in Downing Street:

🗣️"I'm afraid I'm not prepared to comment..but I can assure you we are carrying out our investigations" she says
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🔴Here is the moment Cressida Dick confirmed Scotland Yard is investigating "a number of" alleged parties at Downing Street.

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🔴NEW: Sue Gray's report into alleged lockdown breaches across the Government during coronavirus restrictions will not be published while a criminal investigation is ongoing, it has been reported

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The latest on the Sue Gray report from our Political Editor @benrileysmith ⬇️
🔴There are currently thought to be 15 parties that took place in Number 10 or government departments between May and December 2020

Here's the full timeline 👇
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🔴Angela Rayner, the deputy Labour leader, has welcomed the launch of the Met investigation into the alleged Downing Street gatherings.

Ms Rayner will ask an urgent question regarding 'Partygate' in the Commons this afternoon ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
Jacob Rees-Mogg has said he is “honoured” to be led by Boris Johnson.

His comments came ahead of an urgent question in the Commons from Angela Rayner, the deputy Labour Party leader

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Labour will ask an urgent question in the House of Commons regarding the latest Downing Street party revelations.

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🔴NEW: There is "ongoing contact" between the Metropolitan Police and Sue Gray, according to Paymaster General Michael Ellis, but Ms Gray's Cabinet Office investigation will continue.

Follow all the latest updates on our liveblog here ⬇️
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🗣️ Read Met Commissioner Cressida Dick's statement on Scotland Yard's investigation into the alleged parties in full here 👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/2…
🔴Boris Johnson has welcomed a Metropolitan Police investigation into alleged parties at Downing Street as an opportunity to "draw a line" under the debacle

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Wednesday's #PMQs looks to be a nail-biting affair.

Join us directly afterwards for a Twitter Spaces with @Tony_Diver and @mutazamd, who will be answering your questions on the Partygate scandal.

Submit your questions here 👇
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🔴Boris Johnson could be interviewed by detectives as part of the criminal investigation into ‘partygate’, Scotland Yard has confirmed
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
➡️If Boris Johnson is arrested, he may find it much harder to travel to the United States
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
❌MPs should no longer decide whether colleagues who break Parliamentary sleaze rules should be sanctioned, the head of the public standards watchdog has said
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🚨The police are looking into eight out of 17 “parties” that have emerged since November, which took place over the course of 11 months from May 2020 to April 2021
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🔴NEW: Sue Gray’s report into ‘partygate’ allegations could be published as early as Wednesday after the Metropolitan Police rowed back on concerns about its release
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
📷Images of Boris Johnson attending Downing Street gatherings during lockdown could be published as part of the Sue Gray inquiry into the "partygate" scandal
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