Boris Johnson news – live: Starmer hits the Met over Partygate silence

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Keir Starmer has criticized the Metropolitan Police for not disclosing the number of Partygatefines issued ahead of local elections.
It comes after the force announced it would not provide an update on fixed penalty notices until next month’s local ballots.
The Labor leader said the Met ‘should continue to make its decisions and make those decisions public as they were before’.
“And the Prime Minister must disclose if he receives further fines. The Met Police should not have changed their practice,” the ex-director of public prosecutions added in an interview with the Sunday mirror.
“Criminal charges are laid all the time, elections or no elections. It is in the public interest to know who has been fined, especially those in high government positions.
Reports said fine notices started landing in the email inboxes of officials who attended a ‘bring your own bottle’ drink in Garden No 10 on May 20, 2020 during the first lockdown from England.
The PM cost the magazine £4,000 in parking fines, says former editor
Boris Johnson cost his magazine £4,000 in parking tickets while he was a car correspondent, claims his former editor.
Dylan Jones, who employed Mr Johnson at fashion and lifestyle magazine GQ in 1999, wrote in The Sunday Times“It soon became apparent that there was a problem, as the editor began to receive a large number of parking tickets.
“And when I say a lot, I mean a lot; in Boris’s own words, they began to pile up “like snow on the windscreen”.
Mr Jones added: ‘I once realized that in the decade he worked for GQ, Boris had cost us around £4,000 in parking tickets.
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“But he had also written over a hundred amazingly funny car reviews, so I thought it was worth it.”
Mr Jones said “interestingly” Mr Johnson has never received speeding tickets.
“And I have a pretty good idea why,” Mr Jones added.
“When the cars were delivered to his home in Islington, the automaker always noted the mileage, which is standard practice. The mileage would also be noted when they picked them up again. And on more than one occasion – OK, on many, many occasions – the mileage was exactly the same. So I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.
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Rwanda plans aim to ’empower’ asylum seekers, says Patel
The Rwandan migrants’ plans aim to “empower” asylum seekers, Home Secretary Priti Patel has claimed.
“It has always been a partnership based on resettlement, rebuilding lives. Investing in people,” she said The temperature.
“We empower people through how we invest in them.”
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She previously defended the government’s controversial deal to send asylum seekers for processing to Rwanda as “very unique” and “not like a trade deal”.
“It’s not like a trade deal… We have brought migration and economic development together for a migration and economic development partnership with Rwanda,” Ms Patel said. The Sunday Telegraph.
“It’s so different from the Australian model, for example, with the way they’ve outsourced, so to speak. It’s not comparable, it’s a very, very unique model.
Emily AtkinsonApril 24, 2022 07:50
Starmer hits out at Met over Partygate silence
Keir Starmer has criticized the Metropolitan Police for not disclosing the number of Partygatefines issued ahead of local elections.
It comes after the force announced it would not provide an update on fixed penalty notices until next month’s local ballots.
The Labor leader said the Met ‘should continue to make its decisions and make those decisions public as they were before’.
“And the Prime Minister must disclose if he receives further fines. The Met Police should not have changed their practice,” the ex-director of public prosecutions added in an interview with the Sunday mirror.
“Criminal charges are laid all the time, elections or no elections. It is in the public interest to know who has been fined, especially those in high government positions.
Reports said fine notices started landing in the email inboxes of officials who attended a ‘bring your own bottle’ drink in Garden No 10 on May 20, 2020 during the first lockdown from England.
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