A potential peer who's going through an extra police probe over a lockdown-breaking social gathering ought to "look in the mirror and decide whether or not they should accept such awards", an ex-minister has stated.

The Tory former London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey was nominated to hitch the House of Lords by Boris Johnson in his controversial resignation honours record - regardless of he and his marketing campaign group being pictured at a so-called "jingle and mingle party" in Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) on the peak of the pandemic.

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Further questions had been raised about his appointment after a video of the occasion surfaced within the Daily Mirror, displaying a few of his employees - together with Tory aide Ben Mallet, who was handed an OBE in Mr Johnson's record - dancing, ingesting and failing to socially distance in December 2020.

Now the Metropolitan Police has confirmed it's re-opening its investigation into the gathering.

Mr Bailey has previously apologised "unreservedly" for the occasion, saying the video - by which he doesn't seem - had made him "very upset".

And a Conservative Party spokesman stated formal disciplinary motion had already been taken in opposition to the 4 CCHQ employees who had been seconded to the marketing campaign.

But former justice minister, Sir Robert Buckland, informed Sky News these implicated in these occasions ought to take into account whether or not it's proper to just accept honours.

He informed Kay Burley there was little present Prime Minister Rishi Sunak might do now the gives had been made, saying: "Once the system is began, it is vitally troublesome to cease it if all of the vetting has taken place.

"But if there is fresh information and important, fresh evidence that really casts more of a cloud over that individual's reputation, then they should seriously think, at the very least, about not accepting a peerage or accepting an honour.

"Because I feel the honours system... must have integrity, and these form of occasions and incidences can undermine that. And that is why I feel people must assume very rigorously."

Sir Robert added: "It is basically as much as the people involved to look within the mirror and determine whether or not or not they need to settle for such awards."

The Liberal Democrats have already known as for Mr Bailey to be prevented from becoming a member of the Lords.

"Rishi Sunak needs to confirm he will call for honours to be stripped from anyone found to have broken the law," stated the social gathering's deputy chief Daisy Cooper.

"Anything less would make a complete mockery of his pledge to lead with integrity.

"He must also step in to cease Shaun Bailey from taking his seat as a peer whereas this investigation takes place."