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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aubrey Allegretti Political correspondent

Justice minister resigns over No 10 Partygate revelations

David Wolfson
Wolfson said he had no option but to tender his resignation. Photograph: MoJ

Boris Johnson has been hit by the first ministerial resignation since he was fined by police for breaking Covid rules, as the justice minister, David Wolfson, said the prime minister’s actions were “inconsistent with the rule of law”.

Lord Wolfson said it would be wrong for “that conduct to pass with constitutional impunity, especially when many in society complied with the rules at great personal cost, and others were fined or prosecuted for similar, and sometimes apparently more trivial, offences.”

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