Number 10 is under growing pressure to explain a meeting between Sue Gray and Boris Johnson to discuss her highly-anticipated partygate report.
Number 10 is under growing pressure to explain a meeting between Sue Gray andIt is understood the pair met at least once to give an update on the report’s progress while it was being drafted, but a Whitehall source said that its contents were not discussed at any point.
A Downing Street source insists Mr Johnson didn’t request the meeting either and hasn’t tried to influence the outcome of the report in any way.Boris Johnson says he has been clear Ms Gray’s report should be ‘completely independent’ Multiple sources agree Mr Johnson and Ms Gray met and discussed the progress of the Met Police inquiry but did not discuss the judgements she would come to in her final report.But many are questioning why the prime minister needed to see Ms Gray personally if that was the purpose of their meeting.
She said public confidence in the process had already been ‘depleted’, and people ‘deserve to know the truth’.
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