All the people fined £10k for hosting parties in December last year

Will you be refunding them, prime minister?

From March 27 2020 to October 17 2021, there were 371 £10,000 fines issued by police in England for holding gatherings in breach of covid regulations.

Leaked footage published by ITV News has revealed No.10 staff laughing in a press briefing rehearsal about a Christmas party held at Downing Street in 2020.

In the clip, the prime minister’s spokeswoman Allegra Stratton (an idea since canned) reveals wine, cheese and no social distancing were served up to revellers in Downing Street, despite a London-wide ban on Christmas parties.

Johnson has strenuously denied any knowledge of a party that violated covid restrictions – but if the prime minister did party, should he refund all the other revellers?

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— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) December 7, 2021

Maybe a refund for the two Derby students, fined £10k for covid breach parties?

At the start of December, police were called to reports of loud music from a flat in the Wardwick in Derby.

The party organiser, a 19-year-old University of Derby student, was fined.

A second 20-year-old was fined a week later for hosting 30 people in his student flat.

The fines were possibly the most egregious levy placed on students since David Cameron hiked tuition fees.

What about the £10k levied on the organiser of a 45-strong office Christmas party in the City of London?

In early December, 45 chaps assembled for a Christmas bash in London’s banking district.

Police found them dancing and drinking in an office. No mention of snogging – but one man was slapped with a £10k fixed penalty notice.

Presumably they had more chance of self-funding the fine, than the students.

Is it high time someone refunded this party-goer in High Wycombe?

We don’t know how many were in attendance that one fateful night in Downing Street – and the number probably doesn’t compete with one reveller in High Wycombe, who managed to assemble a 200-strong gathering just before Christmas.

The event appeared to be ticketed but was held in a private dwelling.

The police, investigating the crime retrospectively, eventually located and fined the organiser £10,000.

Not another student…

A Nottingham student in their third year of university was fined £10k for “mixing households”.