Latest updates: Welsh secretary Simon Hart says the ‘world has moved on a considerable distance’ from Partygate scandal
- Fines issued over Downing Street party the night before Philip’s funeral
- Labour women urge party not to use NDAs for sexual harassment allegations
The public do not believe ministers’ promises to tackle crime, official documents seen by the Guardian show.
The Home Office documents reveals polling carried out for the government found a high fear of crime, and low confidence much will be done about it.
I think those words in the context of what’s going on in Ukraine are completely reasonable.I don’t think the issue of what may or may not have happened in Downing Street and what we are now finding out is fundamental.
What I think is fundamental is that we look in the (Covid-19) inquiry at how the rules were devised and the effect that they had, because I think some of those rules were inhuman.
The prime minister said that he was told the rules were followed, but that turns out not to be correct and we know that fines have now been issued, but the prime minister can only work on the information he is given.
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