The prime minister and his wife could both be questioned by police as part of the criminal investigation into alleged rule-breaking parties in Downing Street during lockdown.
Yesterday, the Metropolitan Police said that they would be contacting those they needed ‘further information from’.
Commander Catherine Roper, who is overseeing the investigation, told reporters: ‘We had a bundle of material provided to us just Friday which is well over 500 pieces of paper, about a ream and a half, and over 300 photographs.’
She said she did not know who would be questioned over the matter but confirmed this part of investigation would focus on individual breaches of Covid-19 rules.
‘We’ll be contacting those people that we want to have further information from with a series of questions – that could be via email or it could be by post,’ she added.
Commander Roper said police would look to contact those involved ‘in a matter of weeks’.
Boris Johnson personally attended three of the gatherings investigated by police, while he has refused to say if he was at another reported gathering, said to have taken place in his own flat.
The alleged gathering at the flat was on November 13 2020, the day that Dominic Cummings left Downing Street.
News reports claimed that Carrie Johnson, who lives in the property with the prime minister and their children, was also present for this alleged party.
Boris Johnson has said he is willing to answer questions from police about the gatherings.
Yesterday, a partial report from Sue Gray into the issue was released which found there had been ‘serious failures’ and that some of the events looked into ‘should not have been allowed to take place‘ or ‘develop as they did’.
Mr Johnson told MPs following the publication: ‘I’m sorry for the things we simply didn’t get right and also sorry for the way this matter has been handled.’
But what precisely the Prime Minister is personally sorry about, deputy prime minister Dominic Raab said: ‘He recognised that, as Sue Gray said, the standards expected in No 10 were not as they should have been.’
The Deputy Prime Minister said Mr Johnson ‘takes the organisational responsibility’ for the failures identified but he was not commenting on individual cases because of the police investigation.
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