Suggestions a meeting with the prime minister had been initiated by Sue Gray to discuss her long-awaited report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street have been rejected by her spokesperson
The question of who requested the meeting between Sue Gray and Boris Johnson matters because it determines how seriously we should take accusations about whether the Prime Minister tried to interfere in the partygate report.
But it was only when they found their way into mainstream media coverage that Ms Gray’s team felt the need to issue an on the record correction disputing the suggestion that the senior civil servant had asked for the meeting. That leaves open the possibility that a third party – either inside or outside No 10 – made the arrangements.
Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner called on the prime minister to"urgently explain" why the"secret meeting" had taken place.
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