Boris Johnson referred to police over potential Covid rule breaches

Boris Johnson has been referred to constabulary by the Cabinet Office implicit further imaginable regularisation breaches during the Covid pandemic.

The section said it made the referral aft a reappraisal of documents up of the Covid nationalist inquiry.

The erstwhile premier minister, who was fined past twelvemonth for breaking Covid rules successful 2020, denies immoderate wrongdoing.

The Metropolitan Police said it was assessing accusation it had received from the Cabinet Office past week.

"It relates to imaginable breaches of the Health Protection Regulations betwixt June 2020 and May 2021 astatine Downing Street," the unit added.

A spokesperson for Mr Johnson said: "Some abbreviated entries successful Mr Johnson's authoritative diary were queried by Cabinet Office during mentation for the Covid inquiry.

"Following an introspection of the entries, Mr Johnson's lawyers wrote to the Cabinet Office and Privileges Committee explaining that the events were lawful and were not breaches of immoderate Covid regulations."