Downing Street Parties: Police Investigation

Ben Bradshaw Excerpts

Tuesday 25th January 2022 Commons Chamber

[Michael Ellis]

My right hon. Friend is right, and we would be in lockdown now were it not for this Prime Minister.

[Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter) (Lab)]

Is the Prime Minister not simply compounding his previous terrible mistakes by continuing to deny culpability, leading to an unnecessary and expensive police inquiry, when he could do the decent thing and resign?

[Michael Ellis]

I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman would expect fairness to apply to all in this country, whether that is to one of his constituents or to one of mine, and I would hope and expect that he would not wish to see unfairness for anyone. What we are doing at the Cabinet Office is co-operating with a police investigation. That will carry on and take its natural course, as police investigations invariably do, in an orderly way, unencumbered by interference from the Executive.