Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak fined by police for breaking lockdown rules – 30 favourite responses

Poke Staff. Updated April 12th, 2022

16.

Remember when he got so mad because Allegra Stratton joked about parties he was fined for attending https://t.co/lfkdX8rQnZ

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 12, 2022

17.

Ministers/Civil Servants/Staff. Leaving party. Nos 10 & 11 Downing Street. BYOB. Details to follow.

— Rory Bremner 💙🇺🇦 (@rorybremner) April 12, 2022

18.

If I was one of the two Leeds students fined £10,000 for organising a snowball fight while the #CovidRestrictions were on, I might be feeling a little aggrieved this lunchtime

— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) April 12, 2022

19.

• No rules were broken
• Some events may have breached guidelines but no laws were broken
• Some laws may have been broken but the PM was not present
• Some laws may have been broken, the PM was present but didn’t break them
• The PM and chancellor have fixed penalty notices

— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) April 12, 2022

20.

He broke his *own* laws – the absolute twat.

— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) April 12, 2022

21.

If you think you’re having a rough day, Carrie Johnson is desperately trying to figure out how to remove £70,000 wallpaper without damaging it. Poor thing.

— RD Hale (@Skye_City) April 12, 2022

22.

Gosh…I wonder if anything else he says isn’t quite the truth? #Partygate

— Gabby Logan (@GabbyLogan) April 12, 2022

23.

There's be lots of chat about Westminster goings-on for the next few days. Can Johnson survive? Will Tory MPs wait for the local election results? Does Ukraine make it all less relevant? All of that. But the real question is about what kind of country we are.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) April 12, 2022

24.

Boris Johnson has constantly said he wasn’t going to receive a fixed penalty notice, so he must have been ambushed by it.

— Tom Peck (@tompeck) April 12, 2022

25.

I’m afraid to say that I think this is a resigning matter.
The only question is – who should I order to resign..?#PartyGate #JohnsonOut78 https://t.co/9SUP846zQ6

— Parody Boris (@Parody_PM) April 12, 2022

26.

Law & Order anyone? They broke their own rules. Both of them. Prime Minister & Chancellor.
People dying, NHS staff risking their lives, loneliness & horror in care homes. Millions stayed at home.@conservatives does breaking the law matter to you or not? https://t.co/umPqanoFCs

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) April 12, 2022

27.

Someone's been waiting a while to use this footage, haven't they? 😂 pic.twitter.com/YeczsfyaQl

— Jono Read (@jonoread) April 12, 2022

28.

Johnson and Sunak make history – found by police to have broken the laws they set. 3 months ago both would probably have been finished. Now certainly Johnson and possibly Sunak will resist calls to quit. Did time and events change everything? Voters will decide, eventually.

— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) April 12, 2022

29.

Still deeply funny that this was pushed as a fun bit of colour for a Times longread in summer 2020. https://t.co/4SbhcvLlDw

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) April 12, 2022

30.

They died in their thousands from Covid, cut off from those they loved – alone except for NHS staff. We were at their deathbeds, risking our lives to be there. And I cannot forgive the law-makers turned law-breakers who thought they were above us all.https://t.co/kze7H1bTlq

— Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) April 12, 2022

To conclude …

Hard to overstate the significance of this. The police have decided the prime minister broke the lockdown rules he was responsible for drawing up and implementing. https://t.co/jJ1jSjiZwS

— Nick Eardley (@nickeardleybbc) April 12, 2022

And mostly this.

Woweeee https://t.co/p6vuGdxFOO

— Rosie Holt (@RosieisaHolt) April 12, 2022

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