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Feb 3 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: Two more major resignations from Downing Street tonight, taking the total to four.

PM’s Chief of Staff Dan Rosenfield and Principal Private Secretary Martin Reynolds have both gone.

Statement from No 10 👇
Martin Reynolds was the civil servant who sent the email inviting over 100 staff to a garden party in May 2020, as we revealed last month.

itv.com/news/2022-01-1…
Dan Rosenfield has been less exposed to the partygate scandal, but takes some responsibility for the overall culture in No 10.

Is this Boris Johnson attempting to clear out No 10 and “fix it” as he promised MPs on Monday?
Though Munira Mirza’s blistering resignation today certainly wasn’t part of the plan.

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Feb 3
Jack Doyle gave out awards at the Christmas party in No 10 during lockdown.

He says he’s left of his own choice and according to his own timing, but there was pressure on him to go over the partygate accusations, though the PM is said to have previously refused his resignation.
Jack Doyle is the second member of staff linked to the partygate allegations to have resigned since the scandal emerged. Allegra Stratton was until now the first and only advisor to go.
For background here’s our exclusive from December:

itv.com/news/2021-12-0…
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Jan 31
All detail stripped from Sue Gray's report, but it is still clear in its condemnation:

- Behaviour is "difficult to justify"

- "failures of leadership"

- "Some of the events should not have been allowed"

- "The excessive consumption of alcohol is not appropriate"
"There was too little thought given to what was happening across the country in considering the appropriateness of some of these gatherings, the risks they presented to public health and how they might appear to the public. There were failures of leadership and judgment."
The full list of events Sue Gray investigated...
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Jan 24
EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson had a birthday party during lockdown in June 2020 despite rules forbidding social gatherings indoors, ITV News has learnt.

Up to 30 staff celebrated in the cabinet room where Carrie Johnson surprised him with a cake, we're told.

itv.com/news/2022-01-2…
ITV News has learnt that Lulu Lytle - who was redecorating the Prime Minister's flat at the time - also came down to the party.

It lasted for 20-30 mins we're told, Later that night ITV News understands family friends also celebrated upstairs in the PM's flat.
The week before the party, the PM told us all: "meeting inside other people's homes - that remains against the law".

The Queen had rearranged her birthday, as had millions more. For some, it would be their last.
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Jan 20
BREAKING: Senior backbencher and committee chair Will Wragg accuses whips, No 10 and spads of blackmail.

MPs have faced "pressure & intimidation" for calling for PM to go.

Including cutting investment from constituencies and releasing embarrassing stories.

Serious accusation.
Will Wragg's Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee oversees the work of the cabinet office, including No 10.

This is a serious accusation that the ministerial code has been breached. Understand Wragg is also concerned the law may have been broken.
Given quite a few of the rebellious MPs are 2019 intake from the red wall, threatening to withdraw funding from their constituencies - if true - doesn't do much for the government's levelling up agenda either.
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Jan 18
🚨 Senior Conservative backbencher tells me tonight they are confident of getting to 54 letters tomorrow to try and oust the PM.

“Up the revolution!” they tell me.

No 10 / whips subjecting them to “threats and blackmail” but has only angered MPs further, they say.
“And colleagues are being thrown under the bus” for rebelling they say. “It’s disgusting.”

Parliament hasn’t felt this mutinous since the final days of Theresa May… whose downfall Boris Johnson played a rather large part in.
Important disclaimer: the process of sending in letters is of course secretive. We’ve been here plenty of times before where rebels think they have the numbers, but MPs haven’t actually sent the letters they claim to have sent.

So let’s see what tomorrow brings.
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Jan 13
BREAKING: The Metropolitan Police will NOT investigate any of the Downing Street parties unless and until the Sue Gray inquiry finds evidence of criminality.

ie the Met are relying on an internal inquiry to decide for them whether a crime was committed.

Full statement 👇
The many thousands of people fined for breaching Covid rules may wish they could only have asked a close colleague to investigate them before needing to involve the police.
The Metropolitan Police are already being taken to court by @GoodLawProject who argue that the police’s decision not to investigate any of the parties is unlawful. A judicial review has been launched. It will be fascinating to see what the judge concludes.
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