Here is the nutshell of the nightmare for PM and Conservative Party: the Met is investigating because Sue Gray passed to the Met prima facie evidence that Downing Street parties broke the law; that is what her report would have implied if already published (she would have said…
that the illegality question was for the police to determine); the PM’s spokesman says the PM is confident he did not break the law, presumably because (as Johnson has repeatedly said) no one told him he was at a rule breaking event; but as everyone knows,…
ignorance of the law is almost never a defence, especially for someone who wrote the relevant law; so if the Met finds he attended an illegal party, he like everyone there would have broken the law; I understand why Tory MPs feel they can’t themselves pass judgement…
on whether the PM should be turfed out till they hear definitively from the Met and Gray; but all the toxic uncertainty in the meantime is the most amazing gift to the Labour Party (and not the best conditions for steady rational government).
PS just in case you missed it, Cressida Dick actually said this morning the police take cases more seriously and are more likely to investigate when they have good grounds to believe culprits are not naive idiots but should know the law and what rules they may be breaching
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