Boris Johnson has been referred to police by the Cabinet Office over further potential rule breaches during the Covid pandemic.
The department said it made the referral after a review of documents ahead of the Covid public inquiry.
The former PM, who was fined last year for breaking Covid rules in 2020, has strongly denied wrongdoing.
Both the Metropolitan and Thames Valley Police say they are assessing the information received.
The Cabinet Office said officials had been obliged to disclose the documents to the police under civil service rules.
The Times, which first reported the story, says Mr Johnson has been referred to Thames Valley police because his ministerial diary revealed visits by family and friends to Chequers – the prime minister’s country house in Buckinghamshire – during the pandemic.
Thames Valley Police said it had “received a report of potential breaches of the Health Protection Regulations between June 2020 and May 2021 at Chequers, Buckinghamshire”.
The Met…
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