Boris Johnson information: PM not amongst first 20 fined for Partygate, as No 10 refuses to confess legislation was damaged

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Our coverage correspondent Jon Stone reviews:

No 10 confirmed that Boris Johnson has not been knowledgeable whether or not he’s to be fined over gatherings he attended through the pandemic.

Requested if Mr Johnson had obtained a hard and fast penalty discover, his official spokesman mentioned: “No – no change.”

Downing Avenue proceed to refuse to just accept the legislation had been damaged, regardless of the Met issuing 20 fastened penalty notices (FPNs).

Requested if the PM now accepted that Covid guidelines had been breached, the spokesman mentioned: “The prime minister desires to remark on the conclusion of the method and never in the midst of it … we can have extra to say on the conclusion of the method.”

A caller on LBC tells Jacob Rees-Mogg he lied to the general public for promising “decrease power costs and cheaper meals” if we left the EU.

Requested on the LBC phone-in if a lady can have a penis, cupboard minister Jacob Rees-Mogg mentioned “no” and referenced Genesis 1: 27.

He mentioned: “God made man in his personal picture. He made man and he made lady. He made each of them. I feel God making us in his personal picture is kind of ok for me.”

Nonetheless, Rees-Mogg additionally added: “The difficulty is a posh one. There are problems with tolerance, and there are problems with kindliness, and I feel it’s crucial to permit folks to make no matter decisions of their life.”

The secretary of state for Wales tells GB Information: “‘There are a lot of issues, many choices and judgements that we most likely all made on the time that we want we’d taken in another way.”

Mr Rees-Mogg additionally claimed that post-Brexit commerce offers would assist ease the price of residing disaster – regardless of predictions meals inflation will hit 15 per cent this 12 months.

My colleague Adam Forrest reviews:

The Brexit alternatives minister, whose constituency borders Mr Warburton’s Somerton and Frome seat, was requested on LBC Radio if he would supply a phrase of consolation to a neighbouring MP.

“I clearly really feel sorry for any person on a private stage however it’s actually vital that the inquiry is carried out and folks really feel protected working in Parliament,” the previous Commons chief mentioned.

“There’s a necessity for private sympathy however there’s additionally a necessity for a correct course of to be adopted.”

Mr Rees-Mogg mentioned it was “actually vital that people who find themselves anxious about their working relationship in Parliament have an impartial physique that they’ll go to”.

The minister informed LBC: “The truth that the prime minister was given fallacious data doesn’t imply he mislead folks.”

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Chatting with LBC this morning, the minister mentioned: “I feel these phrases within the context of what’s going on in Ukraine is totally cheap.

“I don’t assume the problem of what might or might not have occurred in Downing Avenue is key.

“What is key is that we glance within the enquiry at how these guidelines had been devised and the impact that they’d as a result of I feel a few of these guidelines had been inhuman.”

He added: “What we should always study from this isn’t in relation to events, however was it ever proper to say that you just weren’t allowed to be with folks as they had been dying and I feel it’s so vital that the enquiry that’s about to happen seems as to if the restrictions had been proportionate.”