{"id":149647,"date":"2022-04-12T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=149647"},"modified":"2022-04-12T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:18:56","slug":"british-pm-boris-johnson-to-be-fined-over-lockdown-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/british-pm-boris-johnson-to-be-fined-over-lockdown-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"British PM Boris Johnson to be fined over lockdown parties"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC: Boris Johnson will be fined by the police for attending a birthday party thrown for him during a Covid lockdown.<\/p>

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No 10 confirmed the PM would receive the fixed penalty notice (FPN) for going to the hour-long gathering in the Cabinet Room on 19 June 2020.<\/p>\n

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Chancellor Rishi Sunak will also receive a fine, while the PM\u2019s wife, Carrie Johnson, confirmed she had paid an FPN relating to the same event.<\/p>

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It comes as part of a\u00a0Met investigation into illegal parties in Downing Street<\/a>.<\/p>

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Mr Johnson\u2019s fine makes him the UK\u2019s first serving prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Scotland\u2019s First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, and Wales\u2019 Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford are among those calling for both the PM and the chancellor to resign.<\/p>

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And all the main opposition parties in Westminster have demanded Parliament be recalled from its Easter break.<\/p>\n

But Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries defended the PM for attending the event, tweeting: \u201cIt was a brief gathering in the Cabinet Room, less than 10 minutes during a busy working day.\u201d<\/p>

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