The first of the fixed penalties notices of £50 are said to have been delivered by email to junior civil servants. The Met Police this week said 20 fines would be given as part of the first tranche but refused to name the recipients.
and Downing Street said it would confirm if he or the cabinet secretary Simon Case were given one.
Boris Johson himself told MPs at the Liaison Committee he was ‘sure you would know’ if he had been faced with a fine. This was seemingly confirmed by policing minister Kit Malthouse who asserted some as prominent as the prime minister ‘probably would’ declare it.Labour leader Keir Starmer has called the prime minister’s wife Carrie Johnson to be named if she receives a penalty as it is ‘very important’ the country knows which senior members of staff were involved.
Whilst agreeing with the ‘general argument’ that family of MPs should not be scrutinised, he said Johnson was the exception in this case. ‘There’s a huge difference between the situation of the wife of the prime minister breaking the rules made by the prime minister and any other situation,’ he said.
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