A Cumbrian MP has rubbished claims the Prime Minister should resign over Partygate claiming “the left wants to bring down a democratically-elected government over a birthday cake”.
It comes after it was confirmed that the Prime Minister and Chancellor were issued with fixed penalty notices after attending a lockdown-breaking event in Downing Street.
The Metropolitan Police has also revealed that more than 50 people have been fined over parties held in Downing Street.
Responding to calls for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign, Workington’s Conservative MP Mark Jenkinson said in a tweet: “The left wants to bring down a democratically-elected government over a birthday cake widely reported at the time the PM is delivering for Britain.
“Just imagine the state we’d be in under Sir Keir Starmer – still masked, locked down, and him fighting his own party to support Ukraine.”
The fine calls into question comments made by the Prime Minister to MPs in December.
He told the House of Commons: “I repeat that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken.”
A former Penrith Conservative MP says the Prime Minister “must go” over Partygate.
Cumbria Crack has approached all of Cumbria’s Conservative MPs for comment.
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