The Latest Breaking News from Partygate

Nigel Farage cries ‘witch-hunt’ – but this may be Reform’s Partygate moment

Media scrutiny of party leader’s finances has undermined his claim to be a politician in tune with typical voters

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6

UK fails to improve on record low ranking in global table of corruption

Compilers of index cite factors including Partygate and revelations about Covid PPE contracts

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2025

Voters see tractor tax as more damaging for Labour than Partygate for the Tories, poll reveals

Three of the prime minister’s most controversial decisions since taking office are seen as more toxic than the scandal of lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street during lockdowns, according to a new poll

The Independent UK · Jan 6, 2025

Boris Johnson says he regrets public apology over Partygate

Former prime minister accused of insulting ‘everyone who lost family members’ during the Covid pandemic

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2024

Covid, canal raids and May’s nostrils: six key takeaways from Boris Johnson’s memoir

Former PM likens Keir Starmer to ‘a bullock having a thermometer unexpectedly shoved in its rectum’ in Unleashed

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2024

This betting scandal is the dying gasp of a tawdry Tory government forever tarred by Partygate and sleaze

Rishi Sunak was meant to clean up the Tory party. Instead he will leave it morally and ideologically exhausted, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2024

Talk of Labour supermajority ‘nonsense’, says party’s Scotland leader – as it happened

Anas Sarwar says ‘not a single vote has been cast’ after Grant Shapps said Tories fighting to prevent Labour landslide even bigger than 1997

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2024

Betting scandal as bad for Tories as Partygate, says Michael Gove

‘It looks like one rule for them and one rule for us,’ the levelling up, housing and communities secretary suggests

The Guardian - UK · Jun 22, 2024

How Sir Keir Starmer set a trap for Boris Johnson over Partygate scandal

The Labour leader said he knew Mr Johnson’s instinct under pressure would be to lie about Downing Street parties in the Commons

The Independent UK · Jun 22, 2024

Washington Post publisher alleged to have advised Boris Johnson to ‘clean up’ phone during Partygate Covid scandal

Sources’ claim suggests advice by Will Lewis, an informal adviser to then prime minister, contradicted instructions to staff

The Guardian - US · Jun 19, 2024