December 2021 was when partygate broke.
And why did it break then, specifically? The one 'party' he was fined for (the 'birthday cake') was actually reported in the newspapers in June 2020. No-one raised an eyebrow then.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...-june-2020-and-didn-t-even-realise/ar-AAWaKia
Indeed, the day after the party took place, the Times ran a piece about the week that was in politics with this colourful introduction:
"Boris Johnson celebrated his 56th birthday yesterday with a small gathering in the cabinet room. Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, and a group of aides sang him Happy Birthday before they tucked into a Union Jack cake.
It's true he has a long history of lying and ignoring the rules but this was a step beyond anything he'd done previously,
Was it? For example I think conspiring to have a journalist beaten up is rather worse, but everyone knew about that in 2019 and voted in the Tories anyway.