Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a weekly podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host, Elner Langford, and each week I'll be taking an in-depth look at the week's biggest

political stories with fellow politics home reporters and special guests from across Westminster.

I'm delighted to be joined by Labour's Shadow Attorney General, Emily Thornbury,

and we've also got Politics Homes political editor Adam Payne.

We'll be discussing the latest Partygate drop and Downing Street's refusal

to say whether receiving a police fine means you've broken the law.

We'll also look at Rishi-Soonak's grilling on cost of living

and a landmark vote for women in the Commons. But let's begin with Partygate. The Met Police issued their first tranche of fixed penalty notices to Downing Street and Whitehall staff this week.

Boris Johnson spokesperson has confirmed that he is not among the 20 and there are still more fines to come.

And we're not going to be getting the names of those who've been fined.

But Emily, do you think Downing Street should release those names?

No, I don't think we need to have that.

I think we need to have the names of the elected politicians

because they're accountable to the public.

I think more important is the fact that Boris Johnson's staff

are accepting that they have broken the law

does seem to show that really, if anybody wanted to continue to debate this, the law has been

broken. Why would you be accepting fixed penalty notices otherwise? And I think what they're trying

to do now is they're trying to say that somehow somehow it isn't important. But if you go back to

the debate around the fixed penalty notices, what happened was was that Parliament and passing

this legislation was passing really strict legislation about the lockdown, you know, making

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