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The Guardian discloses potential partygate fallout for Rishi Sunak, following the emergence of a video showing Tory Party staff at a December 2020 lockdown gathering.

The Guardian reports on a woman who received a 28-month sentence for consuming abortion pills past the legal limit during the lockdown.

The Daily Mirror features Rolf Harris’s secretive funeral, updates on the Madeleine McCann search, and further probes into Boris Johnson’s lockdown rule breaches.

The Guardian’s lead story is Boris Johnson being referred to the police over potential breach of lockdown rules, with a secondary lead on a fatal crash in Wales inciting riots in the capital.

The Daily Mirror headlines with “Palace in lockdown” as it covers the arrest of a man accused of tossing suspected shotgun cartridges over the gates of Buckingham Palace.

The i reports that Boris Johnson is preparing a “robust defence” against charges he misled the House over gatherings in Downing Street during lockdown.

As part of its “Lockdown Files” series, The Daily Telegraph reports that Matt Hancock was told by the Cabinet Office to tone down a section of his book about the China COVID lab leak theory.

After a Conservative MP threatened to rebel over COVID lockdown restrictions, Matt Hancock discussed blocking funding for a disabled children’s center, according to the Daily Telegraph’s “Lockdown Files” series.

According to the Daily Telegraph’s Lockdown Files series, Matt Hancock’s leaked text messages suggest he and other ministers ordered police to strictly enforce COVID rules.

Metro reports allegations that two couples working for Boris Johnson had sex at a lockdown-breaking party in Downing Street the day before Prince Philip’s funeral.

Following the Sue Gray report detailing a series of lockdown-breaking events in Downing Street, Boris Johnson has promised to get on with “tackling the big issues facing Britain,” the Daily Express reports.

The Guardian reports that Boris Johnson insisted he was “oblivious to excessive drinking and partying in Downing Street during lockdown” despite a report “laying bare a litany of rule-breaking behaviour”.

After Sue Gray’s report into Number 10’s illegal lockdown parties, several Tory MPs are calling on Boris Johnson to step down.