Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be fined by the police for attending a birthday party thrown for him during a Covid lockdown.
No 10 confirmed he would receive the fixed penalty notice for going to the hour-long gathering in the Cabinet Room on 19 June 2020.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak and the PM’s wife, Carrie Johnson, have also been notified they will get fines.
It comes as part of a Met investigation into illegal parties in Downing Street.
Johnson’s fine makes him the UK’s first serving prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Scotland’s First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, and Wales’ Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford are among those calling for both the PM and the chancellor to resign.
And all the main opposition parties in Westminster have demanded Parliament be recalled from its Easter break.
But Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross – who at one stage had called for the PM’s resignation over the parties – said “it wouldn’t be right” for Johnson to go while there was war in Ukraine.
The Metropolitan Police is looking into 12 alleged law-breaking gatherings across Whitehall.
So far, more than 50 fines have been handed out, with more expected.
Spokespeople for Johnson and Sunak said they had not been told which event the fines were linked to.
However, they were reported to be at the same gathering for the PM’s birthday – said to have been attended by 30 people.
