OK. It looks better than I expected. Gray says all but four of the gatherings are being investigated by police and she won’t comment on the others while that’s happening. That will make it extremely difficult for the Tories to draw a line under it. This is just getting started.
Some lines I think are genuinely damning. ‘At least some of the gatherings represent a serious failure to observe not just the high standards expected of those working at the heart of Government but also of the standards expected of the entire British population at the time.’
And, undoubtedly, implicit criticism of PM. ‘It seems there was too little thought given to what was happening across the country in considering the appropriateness of some of these gatherings, the risks they presented to public health and how they might appear to the public.’
‘There were failures of leadership and judgment by different parts of No 10 and Cabinet Office at different times. Some of the events should not have been allowed to take place.’
Ask who was in overall charge here and who has vowed in parliament to take ‘full responsibility’.
Ask who was in overall charge here and who has vowed in parliament to take ‘full responsibility’.
Finally this. ‘The use of the garden at No 10 should be primarily for the PM and the private residents of No 10 and No 11 … the garden was used for gatherings without clear authorisation or oversight. This was not appropriate.’ Again, who might be responsible for that?
Remember, too, that the police are specifically investigating a party in the Johnsons’ *flat* on a Friday night - not the garden, not the office. Repeat, they are investigating Johnson and his family personally. If Johnson thinks this is over he has another think coming.
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