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🔴 With Sue Gray's 'partygate' report imminent, some leading lights might well take their chance to bring down the country's most powerful man

@CamillaTominey reports

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The Prime Minister may have granted himself a stay of execution pending the findings of Sue Gray’s much anticipated "partygate" report.

❌But Wednesday’s developments suggest that there is only so much power the most powerful man in the country can wield

Take the strength of the briefing around Ms Gray’s desire to see her investigation published in full.

✍️In theory, it should be in a Prime Minister’s gift to decide when and how an inquiry he has called should report back to the public

➡️Yet suggestions by Cabinet Office sources of a “row” with No 10 over whether the full report or just a summary should be published may have succeeded in boxing Mr Johnson into a corner

⚠️Now, even if No 10 had a legitimate argument for keeping certain details out of the public eye, it risks being tainted by the stench of a suspected coverup

📄 Westminster whispers about who has contributed to the report also served to fuel suspicions that the Civil Service is in no mood to cut Mr Johnson any slack

🔴It has been suggested that Martin Reynolds, who sent an email to No 10 staff on May 20 2020 inviting them to "make the most of the lovely weather and have some socially distanced drinks" in the garden, has been “cooperative” with the inquiry

❓Despite Martin Reynolds' loyalty to Boris Johnson, might his apparent eagerness to comply with an inquiry led by one of his own give the Prime Minister cause for concern?

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