“PartyGate”: Boris Johnson responded to police questionnaire

A dozen receptions are targeted by the police investigation, which would have been divided into eight dates in 2020 and 2021.

Le Monde with AFP

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson responded to the Questionnaire sent by the London Police to the Downing Street Gathering Survey during the confinement, “said his services on Friday, 18 February.

The Head of the British Government, whose political survival is at stake in this case, in accordance with the Application of Scotland Yard, referred the investigation questionnaire within seven days that had been fixed, according to Downing Street.

A dozen receptions are targeted by the police investigation, which would have been divided into eight dates in 2020 and 2021.

Serial Revelations

Eight days ago, the London police announced that she was going to contact “more than 50 people” to get their testimony in this case that scandals in the United Kingdom. Scotland Yard had pointed out that the questionnaires had a “legal status” and had to be completed “with sincerity”. In case of proven offense, offenders risk a fine.

Excluding any resignation despite calls from the opposition as well as some members of his own Conservative Party, Boris Johnson has been fighting for several weeks to save his position. The 57-year-old leader is weakened by the succession of revelations on these sometimes festive events in the places of power during the pandemic, while the British saw their social contacts hardly hampered by health restrictions against CVIV-19.

After publication of an internal pre-report pinning “errors of leadership and judgment”, his fate remains suspended by the conclusions of the police investigation. If they overwhelmed it, the threshold of the 54 Conservative deputies required to trigger a vote of distrust could quickly be reached.

/Media reports.