It is understandable that the Metropolitan Police sent Case a quiz in the same round of questionnaires with other senior government officials, including the Prime Minister and the Chancellor. The Met said earlier this week that it intended to begin questioning witnesses, prompting speculation that Johnson himself might be speaking to officers. No. 10 last confirmed on Tuesday that Boris Johnson had not been interviewed at the time. A spokesman for No. 10 said Friday: “We have nothing else to add.” However, it is understood that his allies believe he will not be questioned because police said he wanted to speak to witnesses and not to those under investigation. Asked if Case had been interviewed by police, a Cabinet spokesman said: “It would not be appropriate to comment on speculation. “The secretary of the cabinet and the prime minister are fully focused on the vital work that this government is doing to illegally invade Ukraine.” The police statement – issued two months after the start of the investigation – suggested that police had not yet found violations that met the probative threshold for certain penalty notices to be issued without further interviews. No FPNs have been issued so far, the force said. The briefing suggests that the investigation may be far from over. The Met said: “It contains a significant amount of research material. the service of more than 100 questionnaires and the need for individual evaluation of each answer “. He added: “The offenses under consideration include a number of elements and the legislation itself has changed between the dates of the event. We proceed with the research as soon as possible. “So far we have not made any referrals to the Acro criminal records office for the issuance of fixed penalty notices. However, each answer to the questionnaire is evaluated in parallel with all the available evidence and if this reaches the evidence limit, then references will be made “. Ministers publicly believe that Johnson will not be punished by the police. “The prime minister is in fact very clear that he is not going to be warned with a fixed sentence because he is sure he has not broken the law,” Tory co-chair Oliver Dowden told LBC. The announcement that the Met was now seeking interviews with those involved sparked distrust from senior Whitehall sources. “The police had all the evidence they needed that the rules had been violated for months,” one said. It’s been two months since police began examining Whitehall’s investigation into senior civil servant Sue Gray, which means it is now unlikely that a verdict will be issued on Johnson before the May local elections. Scotland Yard has obtained more than 300 photographs and 500 pages of documents showing what Gray’s investigation believes is a possible breach of the rules. The images include photographs taken at a party and those taken by security cameras that show when people entered and left the buildings.
