London’s Metropolitan Police has refused to confirm whether it will investigate allegations that Downing Street perverted the course of justice over lockdown breaches.
Announcing the Met’s probe today into illegal partying at Number 10, commissioner Cressida Dick told the London Assembly her force would look into “potential breaches of COVID-19 regulations” that could result in fixed penalty notices being issued.
But two legal experts have told openDemocracy that reports of incriminating messages being deleted – published in The Independent but denied by Number 10 – could constitute a criminal offence far more serious than the actual breaching of lockdown rules highlighted by Dick.
