In the United Kingdom (UK), an internal investigation has delivered a report and a police investigation is under way into the alleged breach of lockdown restrictions in a number of gatherings in the offices of the government and the official residence of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, British-Canadian news agency Reuters reports.
Police in the Western European country, are looking into more than 500 pieces of paper and over 300 photographs in the framework of an investigation into whether the Downing Street gatherings, among them few attended by the Prime Minister himself, violated pandemic lockdown laws in the recent years. The inquiry is expected to take weeks.
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Interestingly, a limited statement by British senior civil servant Sue Gray released on Monday, January 31, found that events with the use of alcohol had taken place at the buildings of the British government, when lockdown rules were in effect. The civil servant evaluated that there had been «serious failures of leadership» and that a number of the events in question should not have been allowed.
Boris Johnson’s personal ratings and the public support for his Conservative Party have decreased significantly from the end of 2021, when British press first reported about the parties. The results of opinion polls indicated that British voters favoured a resignation. 69% of respondents agreed to this in a pollster Savanta ComRes poll and 63% in a YouGov survey, Reuters report.
UK Johnson’s ratings low amid investigations into lockdown-time parties
