A Conservative peer has quit as justice minister over the breaches of Covid rules in Downing Street It comes after Boris Johnson was fined on Tuesday for attending a lockdown party.
Lord David Wolfson said in a letter the “repeated rule-breaking, and breaches of the criminal law” at No 10 had caused him to submit his resignation as justice minister.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, the Conservative peer said: “Justice may often be a matter of courts and procedure, but the rule of law is something else – a constitutional principle which, at its root, means that everyone in a state, and indeed the state itself, is subject to the law.
