The senior official Sue Gray claims that some of these holidays, organized during the first confinement, “should not have been allowed”. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose position is threatened, must be expressed in the day.
Le Monde with AFP
An internal report on the “PartyGate”, the holiday scandal at Downing Street during the confinement, concludes “errors of leadership and judgment”. In this document, the senior official Sue Gray, whose report was given to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Monday 31 January morning, written:
“There have been leadership and judgment failures by different parts of Downing Street and the Cabinet Office at different times. Some events should not have been allowed.”
The publication of this report has been in breath for several weeks the UK press and policies.
A police investigation in progress
Initially expected last week, the document was slow to be published, according to the press due to questions about what can be included. The police also opened an investigation, and requested that the Sue Gray report does not include any elements compromising this investigation.
“We can confirm that Sue Gray took stock of his investigation with the Prime Minister,” commented on Monday in a lawyer.
Downing Street had committed to publishing the report before Boris Johnson made a statement to the House of Commons. It will intervene on Monday at 3:30 pm (4:30 pm Time of Paris), according to the agenda of the Lower House of Parliament.
According to the British press agency Pa, “a version” of his investigation was delivered to Boris Johnson. Sky News states that the Document Delivered Monday does not constitute “the full and final report”, suggesting that it could be after the police investigation completed.
Boris Johnson in the Tourment
Farming the publication of a sweetened version, the British police had provoked the indignation Friday by requesting that this internal report be redacted by key elements so as not to harm its own investigations on several of these holidays, Potentially the most damaging to Boris Johnson.
The opposition parties call for its publication in its entirety.
These holidays shocked in the United Kingdom, which was then subjected to strict confines, and immersed Boris Johnson in a serious crisis threatening his maintenance, the calls for the resignation having multiplied until the conservative majority . Many members of his camp are waiting for the publication of the internal report to decide to try to ourselves or not through a vote of distrust.
saying to understand the anger of the public, Boris Johnson had apologized for his “bad judgments”, but he defended to have violated the rules, affirming, in particular, thought a party, where he had Briefly rendered in May 2020, was a “work event”.
“We will have to wait and see the result of the investigations, but of course, I must absolutely keep what I said in the past,” he said on Monday, asked on television on the sidelines of a Visit in the south-east of England.
To forget the scandals, the 57-year-old launched a counter-offensive, announcing Monday a bill called “Brexit Freedoms” (“Brexit Freedoms”) which aims to facilitate the process already underway to modify or give up and replace the legislation inherited from the European Union.