Hello, and if you’re marking the days off on your Partygate calendar when you wake up each morning, it’s time to chalk up another one. When we learned last week that the Metropolitan police had issued another 50 fines, there was an obvious next question: how many more are there to go? And when can we expect to know that the investigation which might decide the fate of the prime minister is at an end?
So far, there are no good answers. This matters for the civil servants still waiting to learn if they will face a fixed penalty notice. But it also creates vast uncertainty over the future direction of the country at a time of overlapping national crises.
