Lord Wolfson of Tredegar, QC, who has been justice minister since 2020, said the “repeated breach of the rules” by Johnson and other lockdown officials was “inconsistent with the rule of law.” The government was relieved by the Tories’ silent response that Johnson was the first prime minister to be found to have broken the law in power. Government aides said his team had concluded, however, that the Metropolitan Police’s decision to chase him for a “surprise” birthday party at No. 10 on June 19, 2020, made it “inevitable” that he would be fined up to six
