More than 50 people to face police questions on Downing Street parties
by Jessica Elgot and Vikram Dodd from on (#5VYW6)
Those identified as part of Operation Hillman will be sent questionnaire asking for their account of events
More than 50 people must answer police questions about alleged parties in Downing Street and Whitehall that may have breached strict Covid rules, Scotland Yard has said.
In a sign of the scale of the partygate" criminal inquiry, the Metropolitan police revealed on Wednesday they would this week start contacting more than 50 people as part of Operation Hillman", an investigation into events on eight dates between May 2020 to April 2021.
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