Johnson loyalists are pushing the story hard ahead of local elections to help neuter Labour’s attacks over the PM’s lockdown breaches, says Spectator deputy political editor Katy Balls
Starmer has insisted that all rules were followed and that it was a work event. However, the Tories are on a campaign to draw equivalence between that event and the birthday cake event that Johnson and his chancellor Rishi Sunak were fined over. Richard Holden, the MP for North West Durham and a former political adviser, is leading efforts to get the police to re-examine the case .
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