Metropolitan Police Close Investigation into Alleged Covid Rule Breach at Tory Party

No further action will be taken, concluding the force's investigations into alleged breaches of Covid regulations.

Scotland Yard has closed its investigation into allegations that coronavirus regulations were breached at a party for the wife of Sir Bernard Jenkin held in December 2020.
The reception was arranged by Dame Eleanor Laing, the Commons Deputy Speaker, to celebrate the birthdays of Tory MP Virginia Crosbie and peer Baroness Jenkin while London was in Tier 2 measures that restricted indoor socialising.
The Metropolitan Police launched an investigation after criticism of Sir Bernard, who allegedly attended the event, and then went on to sit on the cross-party panel that found Boris Johnson had misled MPs about his partygate denials.
In a statement the Metropolitan Police said officers had “assessed the available information and concluded it did not meet the threshold for the referral of any fixed penalty notices” and that there would be no further action.
This brings to an end the force’s investigations into alleged breaches of Covid regulations, which previously led to fixed penalty notices for Mr Johnson and then-chancellor Rishi Sunak over a gathering for the former prime minister’s 56th birthday.