Jacob Rees-Mogg has dismissed news that the number of Partygate fines has exceeded 100 as a "non-story" in a TV clash.
The top Tory claimed the public was no longer interested in lockdown-flouting in Downing Street and Whitehall during the pandemic after the Metropolitan Police announced a further 50 fixed penalty notices had been issued.
Scotland Yard confirmed on Thursday that the total of penalties dished out had doubled since its last update in April, with the latest fines understood to relate to a No10 Christmas party in December 2020.