“The prime minister is certainly a bad apple, but the whole tree is rotten and the whole country wants reform,” Green Party MP Caroline Lucas says “The police do an outstanding job… we should await their conclusions,” Boris Johnson replies
Sue Gray's initial report might be short on detail. But what she makes perfectly clear is that even the bare bones of what went on in Downing Street and the Cabinet Office during lockdown were unacceptable in her view.Gray reveals three new gatherings took place that weeks of reporting have not previously uncovered - and she confirms a dozen of them are being investigated by the police.
Most risky for No 10, we can now be sure that three events the police are looking into were ones Boris Johnson himself attended. By Gray's counting - after interviewing more than 70 people - on 16 occasions, some of those who worked at the heart of government did not obey those rules. Forget all the process around what and when the report would be published, the back-and-forth with the Met, the claims and denials.
This is an official verdict that Downing Street will try to move on from, but not all of the public, not all of his MPs, may be able to forgive.
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