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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Mikey Smith

Partygate visitor logs witheld as Boris Johnson's No10 brands request 'vexatious'

Downing Street has refused to publish the names of people who visited Number 10 during Covid rule-breaking parties.

Officials dismissed a request from Lib Dem Chief Whip Wendy Chamberlain for visitor logs, claiming it was "vexatious".

The word, increasingly used by public bodies to refuse Freedom of Information requests, means to "cause annoyance".

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