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In a fiery PMQs, Boris Johnson said there were 'more people in work than before the pandemic began'. Yesterday, the Office for Statistics Regulation wrote to Downing Street to complain about the 'incorrect' claim

When it comes to Britain’s least trusted institution right now, it’s a toss-up between Downing Street and the Metropolitan Police. Both are mired in scandal and haemorrhaging trust at a time when we need strong, clean organisations which aren’t institutionally corrupt, incompetent or rotten to the core.

After weeks of waiting, there was no damning Sue Gray report. Instead, U.K. senior civil servant Gray released a short update on her investigation into the Downing Street parties that have dominated British news since the start of the year. But the lack of chapter and verse hardly means Boris…

Senior civil servant Sue Gray has delivered her completed report to Downing Street in redacted form but Metropolitan Police still probing 12 events