IMHO it's not just about breaking the law. Downing Street staff are at the heart of the UK government and the public must be able to trust them, so if they knowingly and continually broke the rules they made, their judgement on other affairs of state can be questioned.
Did they really believe the Covid 'facts' they were feeding the public at the time? If they did then their own sense of self preservation and care for colleagues and families should have been paramount, and it clearly wasn't.
Were they just stupid? If so, then why did they have their jobs in the first place?
If a supermarket shelf stacker repeatedly made 'mistakes' they would be dismissed, and yet we are supposed to believe that the clowns in Downing Street who put their own and public health at risk during a pandemic were guilty of nothing more than misdemeanours.
We don't need an 'independent' report to confirm events when senior staff have already done so. What we need is people of substance and integrity in Downing Street, not halfwits who think the rules don't apply to them.
Sorry for the rant, but I and my family have good reason to be bl00dy angry about the revelations, and no amount of buck passing should be allowed to save anyone's skin; it is not about double standards, it is about the integrity of the UK government.