The force has also launched a new probe into a gathering in Parliament in December 2020
The Metropolitan Police have opened a new investigation and reopened a previous inquiry into potential breaches of Covid regulations in Westminster in 2020 and 2021.
Invitations for the gathering, obtained by the BBC, show that it was described as a "Jingle & Mingle Christmas Drinks".The Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday: “The Met … previously carried out an investigation into an event in Matthew Parker Street on December 14 2020.
Former prime minister Boris Johnson has previously accused Sir Bernard Jenkin, the most senior Conservative member of the Commons Privileges Committee, of “monstrous hypocrisy” after the Guido Fawkes website reported the MP had gone to the drinks party in Parliament while Covid restrictions were in place.
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