The Prime Minister has been accused by Boris Johnson of misleading Parliament on Wednesday over the partygate fine.
Keir Starmer and the Tory leader clashed during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) over the former Labour Transport Minister who resigned this over a criminal conviction.
Badenoch told MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday, “The country needs conviction politicians, not politicians with convictions.”
Starmer replied, “I gently remind her that two of her predecessors had convictions for breaking the Covid rules.”
This comes as Johnson and Rishi Sunak received fixed-penalty notices (FPNs) as they both broke Covid laws inside N10 Downing Street.
Johnson quipped that FPNs are not criminal convictions, he told MPs, “The Prime Minister has clearly misled the House and should correct the record today.”
A spokesman for Badenoch said, “It’s quite important to point out that fixed-penalty notices are not criminal convictions.”
Tory frontbencher Luke Evans also called for Starmer to correct the record, he said, “You would have thought that Keir Starmer as the former director of public prosecutions might know a fixed-penalty notice is not a conviction.”
A Labour source said, “If the Conservatives want to have a row about the extent of their criminality while in office, that’s fine by us.”
