Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the backbench 1922, has confirmed that he has received the 52 letters needed from Conservative MPs to trigger a vote of no-confidence.
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The police investigation into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street and White Hall has finally concluded. The Metropolitan Police clarified that the number of people to receive fixed penalty notices (FPNs) is 83.
Scotland Yard said 35 men received a total of 53 FPNs and 48 women received a total of 73. Meanwhile No 10 said the Prime Minister was “pleased” the investigation had concluded and that officers had told Mr Johnson he would not receive a second fine, having received one for the event on his 56th birthday.
The conclusion of Operation Hillman paves the way for the potentially damaging publication of senior civil servant Sue Gray’s inquiry. Ms Gray's report will set out ‘a general understanding of the nature of the gatherings, including attendance, the setting and the purpose’.
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Downing Street has said its intention is to publish the report in the form it is received as soon as possible. Officials expect the report is most likely to be handed over next week. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “Sue Gray will complete her work and then hand that over and then we will publish that as soon as possible.
"That has not happened yet. So in effect, timings are a matter for her, still, in terms of when she completes her report.” Asked if No 10 intends to publish any photographic or documentary evidence included in the body of Ms Gray’s report, or in some sort of appendix, he said: “It’s a hypothetical situation, but our intention will be to publish the report as received as much as possible.
“You’ll know from the interim report … we will need to carry out any sort of requisite data protection
Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the backbench 1922, has confirmed that he has received the 52 letters needed from Conservative MPs to trigger a vote of no-confidence.
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COVID lockdowns.Gray’s long-awaited 37-page report, which includes nine photographs featuring Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was published this morning (May 25) and can be read in full here.“Whatever the initial intent, what took place at many of these gatherings and the way in which they developed was not in line with COVID guidance at the time,” the report says.“Even allowing for the extraordinary pressures officials and advisers were under, the factual findings of this report illustrate some attitudes and behaviours inconsistent with that guidance.”Gray concluded in her report that “a number of these gatherings should not have been allowed to take place or to develop in the way that they did”, and said that “there is significant learning to be drawn from these events which must be addressed immediately across Government”.In a statement given to the House of Commons this afternoon, Johnson said that he “takes full responsibility for everything that happened on my watch” and that proposals for “change and reform” of Downing Street are being implemented.“It is clear from what Sue Gray had to say that some of these gatherings went on for far longer than was necessary and they clearly fell in breach of the rules,” he told MPs, before saying that he had “no knowledge” of proceedings until the report as “I simply wasn’t there”.In response to Johnson’s statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that Gray’s report “lays bare the rot that under this prime minister has spread in Number 10, and it provides definitive proof of how those within the building treated the sacrifices of the British people with utter contempt”.Michael Kill, the NTIA’s CEO, has issued a response on the findings of the Gray report, saying that the
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Sue Gray has provided her final report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street and Whitehall to the Prime Minister, a Cabinet spokesperson has confirmed. The long-awaited report is understood to be 37 pages long and also has nine photos, including pictures of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case.
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