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Boris Johnson has to return his Partygate questionnaire to police by tonight as part of Scotland Yard's probe into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street and Whitehall

Detectives investigating alleged parties held in Downing Street and Whitehall will begin contacting more than 50 people believed to have taken part in the events by the end of the week, the Met Police said.

Since 2018, one in three civil servants has been recruited in the capital.

The focus of the Partygate scandal has now shifted to the Metropolitan Police as officers investigate 12 alleged gatherings in Downing Street and Whitehall across a year of the pandemic.

Senior civil servant Sue Gray found 'failures of leadership and judgement' over the Downing Street lockdown parties, including a bash allegedly held in Boris Johnson's own flat

The police are investigating at least 12 events held in No 10 and Whitehall during England’s coronavirus lockdowns.

Sue Gray has revealed the parties being looked at by the Metropolitan Police

Prime Minister Boris Johnson to make a statement as details of the probe by top civil servant Sue Gray into allegations of rule-breaking booze-ups in Downing Street and Whitehall released

The report is expected to be sent to No10 in the coming hours or days after Ms Gray handed over evidence of possible lockdown breaches to Scotland Yard

The first critical question about the criminal investigation into what Cressida Dick described as “the events at Downing Street and Whitehall” is whether the probe will covered any attend by Boris Johnson.

The publication of Sue Gray’s full report into the allegations of boozy gatherings in Downing Street and Whitehall during lockdown will be delayed after Scotland Yard requested it contain “minimal references” to the parties its detectives are probing.