Beginning in December 2021, the media reported that there had been social gatherings by the Conservative Party and UK government staff that contravened public health restrictions.[13] Johnson was personally implicated, and he, his wife Carrie Johnson, and the chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, were all given fixed penalty notices by the police.[14] Several Conservative MPs called for Johnson to resign, and one, Christian Wakeford, defected to the Labour Party.[15]