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14 Jan, 8 tweets, 3 min read
NEW: I’ve seen the email invite for this. Over 40 were invited- including No10 political aides and civil servants. Invitees include the PM’s Chief of Staff Dan Rosenfeld and Comms Chief Jack Doyle.

When asked to confirm or deny actual attendance Downing St didn’t reply tonight.
Reminder, on that date London was in T3. This wasn't an event which is outside but in one room in the Cab Office. The title of the event is "Farewell" and was held in the early evening.

Fact PM's staff were at least invited (plus no denial) takes story back to Downing St.
We contacted No 10 repeatedly for a comment tonight and a confirmation or denial apropos specific members of staff, as I say, we've heard nothing.

More for Sue Gray to chew over...
In taxi with this story on midnight R4 news alongside Guy Opperman commennts from @ionewells. Then @PippaCrerar’s latest. Heading into the weekend with no let up for no 10...
Important thing to note about No 10 staff being invited to this event- it dispels notion these gatherings were all about people just hanging out with people they immediately work with. If no 10 people did go they would have travelled from no 10 to cabinet office...
NEW: No10 have responded to my Q about the invite asking them to confirm or deny presence of PM’s Chief of Staff San Rosenfeld, Jack Doyle and other invited no 10 staff at Joseph’s leaving event. They haven’t answered directly. Instead they’ve said, well, basically ‘Sue Gray’: Image
This development is important as Rosenfeld and Doyle are some PM’s most senior advisors. The invite list includes a host of other No 10 figures. Again we can’t sure if they all attended, though No 10 hasn’t denied it. And Josephs’ statement makes clear she regrets the event...
This also an important point from Harry 👇

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12 Jan
NEW: On a huge day for Boris Johnson things just got that bit worse.

High court rules govt’s use of “VIP lane” to award PPE contracts to two companies during pandemic first wave was unlawful.
Judge said “there is evidence that opportunities were treated as high priority even where there were no objectively justifiable grounds for expediting the offer.”
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11 Jan
You’ll note that not only is the PM not in attendance but there are barely any Conservative MPs there either.
Labour MPs keep shouting “Wheres the Prime Minister?!”

Mr Speaker interrupts: “It’s obvious it’s not the Prime Minister. We don’t need to keep hearing the question. The minister already has the tough job as it is.”
Ellis: “if wrong-doing is found to have taken place then the requisite disciplinary action will be taken.”
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11 Jan
Talking to civil servants, quite a bit of dissatisfaction in Whitehall that, because of the evolution of events, a civil servant is now effectively being asked to sit in judgment on the Prime Minister and that that is an impossible position.
Ie the view I’m hearing is that even with someone with the formidable reputation as Sue Gray, she has now been placed in a deeply unfair and invidious situation.
It’s also pointed out that the PM could easily ameliorate this problem and remove himself from being in the investigation’s purview by simply explaining any involvement he had in that event now- ie not await SG’s conclusions. As also suggested by this former No 10 Chief of Staff
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10 Jan
.@EmilyThornberry on her reaction to the alleged May 2020 party: "Complete disbelief. But this falls into a pattern of their hiding the truth and then when things come out starting to lie about it and then spin about it and then hiding behind Sue Gray." #Newsnight
Thornberry: "Just four weeks ago the PM was saying...how furious he was that Downing St was that staff were making light of restrictions and how furious people would be that people setting the rules were not following them." #Newsnight
Thornberry: "A few weeks after this party Boris Johnson announced that because we'd all been following the rules...we are now able to meet one another in gardens. When all the time they had just been doing whatever they wanted because the rules don't apply to them."
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10 Jan
So what did all that mean?

Big picture:

1) If I were an affected leaseholder I'd be more confident after today that I won't be footing the bill for fire safety works.
2) I'd be less confident about when I'll be able to finally move on, sell my flat and the process concludes.
3) And the rest of us can be almost clueless as to whether i) developers will actually pay ii) how much iii) when iv) what the process will be/how it will be calculated v) whether the taxpayer ultimately will have to step in
Because ultimately what Gove announced today was an important change of principle but little in the way of concrete detail as to how it will be achieved

Ie Gove announced leaseholders not on hook for anything, cladding or otherwise (mega important) but then...
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10 Jan
.@lisanandy quoting from our leaked letter and tension between what Michael Gove has said today and what HMT says in it: "He said we can increase taxation on those responsible but that isn't quite right is it? I have here a letter from the Chief Sec to the Treasury..."
"...if I've seen this letter then I'm fairly sure the developers have too...What he has told the public that tax rises are the backstop is not what he's told the Treasury...this letter says that you have confirmed that DLUHC are a backstop for funding the proposals in full..."
"...that is not what he told the House a few moments ago."

Asks him to clarify his plan and says that if he has to go back to the Treasury and legislate it could take months. Leaseholders need help now.
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