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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Colin Drury

Partygate: Council boss confirmed as subject of police investigation but remains on fully paid leave

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A council boss who threw a lockdown-breaking party in her previous government job is to remain on fully paid leave despite it now being confirmed her bash is the subject of a police investigation.

Calls were already growing for Kate Josephs to resign as chief executive of Sheffield City Council after she admitted breaching coronavirus restrictions to throw a leaving party when she left the Cabinet Office’s Covid-19 Taskforce in December 2020.

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