
A photo dated November 13 2020 showing Boris Johnson at a gathering in 10 Downing Street
(Picture: PA Media)Prime Minister Boris Johnson is locked in a battle for political survival but he and his Downing Street staff appear to have benefitted from a special kind of police investigation, feeding the narrative that it is ‘one rule for them’ and another for everyone else.
Lockdown-breaking was rigorously enforced by the police, with Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) handed out for relatively minor infractions – teenagers standing on a street corner together, a pensioner meeting others for company at his allotment.