➡️Boris Johnson's statement in the House of Commons in response to the Sue Gray report is expected to begin immediately after #PMQS telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🚨BREAKING: The Sue Gray report into the partygate scandal has now been published by the Government telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🔴Sue Gray said in her report that "whatever the initial intent" of some of the partygate gatherings, what took place at many of them "was not in line with Covid guidance at the time" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🗣️The official Sue Gray report states that it is the "senior leadership" in Downing Street who must "bear responsibility" for the culture in No 10 during the pandemic
🔴Sue Gray said that during the course of her investigation she was made aware of "multiple examples" of "unacceptable" behaviour towards No 10 security and cleaning staff telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
💬Sue Gray said that the fact senior members of staff were in attendance at some partygate gatherings should be taken into account if and when disciplinary action is taken against officials telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
In her findings Sue Gray says “some members of staff drank excessively” at some events.
At a party on June 18, 2020, she reports that “one individual was sick” and “there was a minor altercation between two other individuals” telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🗣️Sue Gray said that the parties and behaviour in No 10 during the pandemic "did not reflect the prevailing culture in Government" at the time.
"Many thousands of people up and down the country worked tirelessly to deliver in unprecedented times" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
Boris Johnson will be grilled at PMQs before then delivering a statement in the House of Commons in response to Ms Gray’s findings.
🗣️Boris Johnson: "It is important to set out that over a period of about 600 days gatherings on a total of eight dates have been found to be in breach of the regulations in a building that is 5,300 metres square, across five floors, excluding the flats" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
💬Boris Johnson told the House of Commons that No 10 staff were working "extremely long hours" during the pandemic.
He told the Commons that "it was appropriate to recognise them, to thank them for the work they had done" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
The PM said: "Some of these gatherings went on far longer than was necessary and they were clearly in breach of the rules and they fell foul of the rules"
The Prime Minister told MPs that he had been "humbled and I have learned a lesson".
💬He said his hope is that "we will be able to move on and focus on the priorities of the British people" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🗣️Sir Keir Starmer told the Commons that "a failure of leadership" has now left the Government "paralysed in the middle of a cost of living crisis" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
Even if Boris Johnson fights on, there are several moments of danger coming up over the coming days, weeks and months that could yet take his future out of his own hands.
🔴A party held in the Downing Street flat, at which it was reported Carrie Johnson and friends played loud Abba music, was not fully investigated by Sue Gray because she concluded it would not be "appropriate or proportionate" to do so
📊A snap poll published by YouGov has revealed three in five people - 59% - believe Boris Johnson should resign as Prime Minister following the publication of the Sue Gray report.
🗣️Mr Johnson has said: "It is precisely because I have learned this lesson that I feel an even greater weight of responsibility to deliver on the priorities of the British people and lead our country through some of the most challenging times" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🔴Boris Johnson defends attending leaving dos for No 10 staff
"I was saying farewell to valued colleagues. I know that some people will think it was wrong even to do that. I have to say I respectfully disagree" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
➡️Boris Johnson refuses to be drawn on potential disciplinary action
"Everybody who is in any way involved in this whole sorry business has got to learn the lessons and that applies to everybody in the report" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🔴Boris Johnson would not be drawn on whether he had considered resigning.
"All I can say is that I really think given everything that is going on right now it is my job to get on and serve the people of this country."
🚨The Archbishop of Canterbury: "Sue Gray’s report shows that culture, behaviour and standards in public life really matter. We need to be able to trust our institutions" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
The latest from @Tony_Diver in parliament this evening ⤵️
🔴A Conservative MP’s son fighting with Ukrainian soldiers helped save a fellow Briton who was injured by a landmine during an intense firefight filmed on a helmet-mounted camera
➡️ Ben Grant can be heard screaming: “We’ve got to move now or we’re gonna die!” as he and comrades dragged former Grenadier Guardsman Dean Arthur to safety in woodland north of Kharkiv
🔴 Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian President, has accused Moscow of pursuing an "obvious policy of genocide" in the Donbas, after failing to take the capital Kyiv.
🔴 Moscow is ready to make a "significant contribution" to averting a looming food crisis if the West lifts sanctions over Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin told Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday.
🔴 Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Ganna Malyar has said that fighting in the east had reached "its maximum intensity" since Russia invaded its neighbour on February 24
🔴Rishi Sunak has boasted of spending and taxing more than Labour would to help households through the cost of living crisis, as he unveiled a £21 billion package of support
➡️The Chancellor announced £400 off energy bills for every household, plus payments of £650 for people on benefits, £300 for pensioners and £150 for those with disabilities
🔴 Rishi Sunak is about to deliver a statement in the House of Commons as he unveils the Government’s new package of support to address the cost of living crisis
🗣️Rishi Sunak has said the Government "will not sit idly by" while there is a risk that some families could be hit so hard by the crisis that "they might never recover."
🗣️ Volodymyr Zelensky has shut down suggestions that Ukraine should cede control of territory and make concessions to end the war with Russia. Follow the latest updates 👇
Henry Kissinger this week suggested that Ukraine should let Russia keep Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.