Tory ministers have contradicted Downing Street by accepting 20 people fined over partygate have broken the law.
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab and now International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan have both said the Metropolitan Police's decision to issue 20 fines linked to the covid parties meant lockdown laws were broken in Whitehall.
It comes as Boris Johnson's office refused to accept that 20 people who have been fined for breaking the law broke the law.