No individuals will receive a penalty from the Metropolitan police regarding a gathering in parliament in December 2020, the force has said. The gathering was said to have been arranged by the Commons deputy speaker, Dame Eleanor Laing, to celebrate the birthdays of the Conservative MP Virginia Crosbie and the peer Lady Jenkin while London was under tier 2 measures that restricted indoor socialising. It was cited by Boris Johnson in a statement accusing the Tory MP Sir Bernard Jenkin of “monstrous hypocrisy” for allegedly attending the event before sitting on the cross-party panel that found the former prime minister had lied to MPs with his Partygate denials. The Met said officers “assessed the available information and concluded it did not meet the threshold for the referral of any fixed-penalty notices” and that there would be no further action. It had already been confirmed by a spokesperson for the Commons speaker’s office that Laing did not receive a fixed-penalty notice from police regarding that event. Crosbie had also said she did not receive a penalty from the Met over the event. The decision brings to an end the force’s investigations into alleged breaches of Covid regulations, which previously led to fixed-penalty notices for Johnson and Rishi Sunak, the then-chancellor, for attending a gathering for the former prime minister’s 56th birthday. In a statement, the Met said: “Our approach to the assessment of these allegations has been consistent throughout. The individuals affected have been told there will be no further action. “This now concludes all assessments or investigations by the Met into alleged breaches of Covid regulations.”