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Priti Patel accuses senior Tory MP of breaking Covid rules

Home secretary agrees that dinner attended by Tobias Ellwood was an ‘egregious’ breach

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The home secretary, Priti Patel, has accused a senior Tory MP of breaching Covid-19 rules after he attended a Christmas dinner for 27 people at a private members’ club.

Tobias Ellwood, an ex-Foreign Office minister who chairs the influential Commons defence select committee, gave a speech at the Cavalry and Guards Club in London on Tuesday evening hours before the capital moved into tier 3. Only a day earlier in parliament he called on the government to review its plans to relax restrictions for Christmas to avoid a third wave in the new year.

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