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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mark Townsend and agency

Tory MPs back calls for criminal investigation into partygate

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Backbench Tory MPs are now also urging the Met to step in and investigate gatherings. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Pressure is building on the Metropolitan police from Tory MPs who want the force to investigate Downing Street’s lockdown parties regardless of the findings of the Sue Gray report this week.

Although many MPs have said that they are withholding judgment until the outcome of the Gray inquiry, some believe that the details of what is already publicly known are sufficient to merit police action.

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