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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

First Partygate staff member breaks cover to apologise for raucous lockdown bash

A former Whitehall ethics chief has apologised for an "error of judgement" after being fined by Partygate police over a lockdown karaoke bash.

Helen MacNamara became the first person to publicly apologise for receiving a Partygate fine for attending law-breaking parties in Downing Street and Whitehall during the pandemic.

The ex-senior civil servant was handed a £50 fixed penalty notice on Friday by police over a raucous leaving do at the Cabinet Office on June 18 2020, which resulted in a drunken brawl.

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