‘Something clearly happened’, Tory MP says of alleged No 10 party

The Metropolitan Police have said they will not investigate allegations of a party at Downing Street last Christmas due to what they called “an absence of evidence”, and a policy not to investigate retrospective breaches of the rules.

No-one from the government would appear on the programme tonight. In fact ministers haven’t given any TV interviews today.

But we spoke to Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker.