SNP warn Boris Johnson against pressurising Scotland Yard over partygate inquiry

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Boris Johnson’s allies have been warned off seeking to put pressure on Scotland Yard to give the Prime Minister “special treatment” during its probe into the partygate scandal.

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said reports that senior allies of Boris Johnson are pressuring the police to give the Prime Minister special treatment over rule-breaking were reprehensible.

He spoke out after a senior ally of Johnson told The Times that the Metropolitan Police will need to be “very certain” that he had broken lockdown rules before issuing him with a fixed penalty notice.

The source added: “There is inevitably a degree of discretion here. Do you want the Met Police deciding who the Prime Minister is?”Blackford said: “Boris Johnson must distance himself from this extraordinary threat to the police.“It beggars belief that the Tories think the Prime Minister should get special treatment - or find a loophole, within a technicality, to wriggle off the hook."“Going down either path would do serious and lasting damage to any remaining public trust in the UK government.”Blackford added: “No one is above the law, not even Boris Johnson - no matter what he might believe.