Standards Commissioner’s Report into Laing’s Lockdown Birthday Drinks Party Expected to Find “Insufficient Evidence”

Guido has heard that the investigations undertaken by the Standards Commissioner into lockdown party-goers Virginia Crosbie, Eleanor Laing, Bernard Jenkin and Miriam Cates have been closed. The reports are expected to be being publicly released in around two weeks time. Timed for just before recess…

The suspicion is that all four of the rule-breaking MPs will get off, and wanting to avoid an inevitable wave of outrage that will inevitably ensue, parliamentary authorities are waiting to release the report until everyone is off on their Easter holiday and it’s swept under the rug.[…] Read the rest