Tories’ let off for lockdown party at HQ

TWO dozen Tories have avoided Covid lockdown fines over a “raucous” party at Conservative HQ.

Scotland Yard will take no further action against the group that included flopped London mayor hopeful Shaun Bailey.

He said he simply dropped in to give a speech and left shortly after, as did Tory donor Nick Candy.

The pair were in the group who posed for a photo beside a buffet and glasses while London was in Tier 2 restrictions.

But the force has now concluded that the “photo by itself is not sufficient evidence on which to assess that an offence had been committed”.