Party time when PM exits No10

Eviction from Downing Street will cost Boris Johnson his longed-for legacy. It will cost us, the taxpayer, £180,000. That’s the price of the civil service and police time spent probing No10 parties that should never have happened.

The nation is rightly furious that the Prime Minister cared so little for the Covid rules he himself imposed that he put living it up before his duty to protect lives and livelihoods.

Our PM gave not one jot about those who were forbidden from saying a final face-to-face goodbye to a dying loved one – or the family get-togethers we all did without because we were obeying his rules.

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Patsy Stevenson is angry too. She was fined £200 for breaking lockdown restrictions to honour the memory of murdered Sarah Everard.

There was no cheese and wine at the vigil Patsy attended on London’s Clapham Common.

Yet police pinned her down to arrest her, while ignoring food and booze pouring into No10.

The cost of the Partygate inquiry would be better spent on shielding women and girls from the kind of predator who snatched Sarah’s life away. And this investigation would not be needed had Mr Johnson and his staff accepted that rules also apply to them.

This PM is on borrowed time. We will party – legally – when it finally runs out.