It is more than a year since news emerged that Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Downing Street staff had attended parties in Number 10 during the pandemic lockdown.
And though the details of the scandal were broken by journalists 13 months ago, the Cabinet Office is still refusing to disclose documents, answer the most basic questions about evidence, or – strangest of all – confirm the existence of CCTV that the public already knows about.
Johnson vowed at the time that lessons had been learnt. But the government’s fight to keep evidence secret after all this time suggests otherwise.
