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The Latest Breaking News from Sue Gray

Scotland Yard launches investigation into ‘parties’ in Downing Street

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said a ‘number of events’ are being investigated.

The Independent UK

Met launches criminal investigation into Downing Street parties

U-turn from force commissioner Cressida Dick means Sue Gray’s inquiry report will be delayed

The Guardian - UK

Met Police now investigating Downing Street parties

No 10 has conceded staff “gathered briefly” in the Cabinet Room on the afternoon of June 19 2020

Wales Online

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Police to investigate 'a number of' alleged Downing Street parties says Met chief

Dame Cressida Dick finally confirmed that the force would look into 'a number of events' in No 10 and Whitehall that may have broken Covid rules

Daily Mirror

Downing Street parties: Sue Gray report could come this week as police signal no objection – as it happened

Latest updates: prime minister welcomes Met police investigation into allegations of lockdown rule-breaking

The Guardian - UK

Grant Shapps defends Boris Johnson's lockdown birthday gathering as 'not a party'

Tory Grant Shapps put forward some excuses for Boris Johnson who is embroiled in yet another row over pandemic parties

Daily Mirror

Cake and singing on PM’s birthday was not a party, says Grant Shapps

Transport secretary says Sue Gray will be using incident in her report, and ‘we’ll wait to see what she says’

The Guardian - UK

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The scope of Sue Gray’s report is limited, but the public do have power

There’s no fail-safe way to enforce the ministerial code, but conventions depend on public feeling, says Vernon Bogdanor of King’s College London

The Guardian - UK

When is Sue Gray’s report due? Everything we know so far

Investigation by senior civil servant to set out the facts of what happened at Downing Street lockdown gatherings, at some of which staff drank alcohol, ate food and listened to music

The Independent UK

Report into PM Johnson lockdown party allegations expected soon

An internal inquiry into allegations of lockdown parties at Boris Johnson's Downing Street office could be published as soon as Wednesday, delivering findings that might determine the prime minister's future after police also launched an investigation.

Reuters

London politics news: Sue Gray ‘sent No10 party photos featuring PM’ as police discuss report release

Sue Gray has been sent photographs of Downing Street parties which show Boris Johnson and others next to wine, according to reports.

Evening Standard

Sue Gray news – live: Boris Johnson yet to receive lockdown parties report as PM awaits key probe findings

Johnson insists new police probe will ‘help give public the clarity it needs’

The Independent UK

Pfizer launches Omicron vaccine trial; UK reports highest daily deaths since February – as it happened

Company hopes vaccine will be ready for approval by March; UK reports 439 deaths and more than nearly 95,000 cases

The Guardian - UK

Nusrat Ghani’s Islamophobia claims taken ‘extremely seriously’ by PM

Boris Johnson orders a Cabinet Office investigation into allegations surrounding sacking of the junior minister

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The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson faces fresh outrage over lockdown birthday party

Furious response from MPs and bereaved after revelation of celebration held indoors in contravention of Covid restrictions

Wales Online

Bookies' favourites to replace Boris Johnson if he resigns as Prime Minister

If he's forced to stand down, here's who could replace him

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson birthday party row grows but minister urges people to focus on Ukraine instead

A health minister has appealed to the public to focus on the threat of war in Ukraine, rather than No10 parties

The Independent UK

No 10 ‘held birthday party for Boris Johnson during lockdown’

PM attended surprise bash for ‘less than 10 minutes’, says Downing Street

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Evening Standard

Dominic Cummings refuses to meet Sue Gray so Boris Johnson can’t ‘spin his way out’

Dominic Cummings said he won’t meet with Sue Gray so Boris Johnson can’t “invent nonsense and spin it in the media”.

The Conversation

Q+A: What we can and cannot expect from the investigation into British prime minister Boris Johnson

The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, is facing calls to resign after it was revealed that his staff held gatherings in Downing Street while strict pandemic rules were in place for the rest of the nation.

The Guardian - UK

I don’t trust PM not to leak interview with Sue Gray, says Cummings

Former No 10 adviser says he will only submit written evidence to Downing Street parties inquiry

Daily Mirror

Partygate evidence has been kept from Sue Gray in fear Boris Johnson 'will see'

Dominic Cummings has said he's been submitting evidence to Ms Gray's investigation in writing so the Prime Minister cannot 'spin' his words or 'invent nonsense'

The Independent UK

Transparency of Gray report questioned amid claims staff kept back evidence

The report is expected to be released later this week – but it is unclear in what format.

The Independent UK

Dominic Cummings claims fearful Downing Street staff are keeping evidence from Sue Gray inquiry

Staff worried because they know the PM will see everything, says ex-adviser

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson: Ghani’s claims of Islamophobia taken ‘extremely seriously’

Boris Johnson has ordered a Cabinet Office investigation into Nusrat Ghani’s claim that her Muslim faith was partly to blame for her ministerial exit.

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