British Police investigate Johnson for breaching lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic

May 23. (EUROPE PRESS) –

London’s Metropolitan Police and Thames Territory Police, serving Buckinghamshire, are investigating former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for allegedly breaching lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“On Thursday we received a report of possible breaches of health regulations between June 2020 and May 2021 in Checkers, Buckinghamshire (the official residence of the Prime Minister). We are currently evaluating this information,” said a spokesperson for the Thames Territorial Police. , according to an investigation by ‘The Times’.

Specifically, the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom would have sent a report to both the London Metropolitan Police and the Thames Territorial Police, on these suspicions after Johnson’s legal team had access to the former prime minister’s visit diary. minister at the Checkers residence.

Lawyers for the former Prime Minister consulted with high-level figures in the Office about possible breaches of health regulations, particularly following a series of personal visits by various friends of Johnson to Checkers, after which the Office, in under the civil service code, he sent the case to the Police.

However, the former prime minister’s legal team has dismissed the accusations, describing the referral as a “politically motivated attempt to make something out of nothing,” according to the investigation by the aforementioned British newspaper.

The scandal over the parties held in Downing Street during the pandemic and known as ‘Partygate’ ended up accelerating Johnson’s resignation on September 6, 2021, amid pressure from his own colleagues due to the discredit that the Conservative Party was acquiring for this and other scandals under his tenure.