The police investigation into lockdown breaking parties in Downing Street and around Whitehall has concluded, Scotland Yard has announced.
In all, 126 fines have been issued for events relating to the partygate scandal, The Metropolitan Police said.
Boris Johnson, his wife Carrie and Chancellor Rishi Sunak are among those that have been previously fined.
It is not clear yet if the Prime Minister has been issued with a second fixed penalty notice. It is understood that at this stage Johnson has not received notification of another fixed-penalty notice.
If the Prime Minister escapes with just one fixed penalty notice there will be relief in Downing Street.
But the Prime Minister still faces the outcome of the Sue Gray report into the lockdown breaches and a possible vote of no confidence from backbench Tory MPs who view his rule-breaking as an electoral liability.
The report from the senior civil servant detailing the numerous parties that took place across Whitehall is now expected to be published next week.
The Met said in statement: “Of the referrals, all resulted or will do so in a FPN being issued. The breakdown of recipients is, 53 were men and 73 were women. Some people received more than one FPN.
“We will not be releasing or confirming the identity of anyone involved in this investigation or providing further details of our findings, in line with the approach we’ve taken throughout the pandemic.”
The statement added: “Our position from early on in the pandemic was that we would not routinely investigate historic breaches of Covid regulations.
"This was for two reasons – first that we could not retrospectively engage and inform those involved that they were breaching the rules – an important step in our policing strategy around Covid - and second, that as these were summary-only offences, we did not judge it a proportionate use of officers’ time.
“However, we did recognise that there might be some exceptions to this approach, and set out at the time the criteria that would need to be met for us to consider a retrospective investigation.”
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