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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Analysis: Did an under fire Met go easy on Boris Johnson over Covid?

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.

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