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Daily Record
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Politics
Paul Hutcheon

Tory minister David Wolfson quits UK Government over Partygate scandal

A Conservative Justice Minister has quit as justice minister in protest of the Partygate scandal.

David Wolfson resigned after hitting out at the “scale, context and nature” of breaches of Covid regulations in Downing Street.

In a letter to Boris Johnson, who yesterday revealed he had been fined over attending a party during lockdown, referred to the Prime Minister's “own conduct” as well as the actual events.

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