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The New Statesman: politics and culture

SPECIAL: Sue Gray’s report into Downing Street lockdown parties is published

The New Statesman: politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A special episode of the New Statesman podcast recorded immediately after Boris Johnson’s announcement on the published Sue Gray report.

 

A heavily censored version of Sue Gray’s report has finally been published, as 12 of the 16 alleged gatherings at Downing Street are currently being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.

 

Anoosh Chakelian and Stephen Bush discuss the hostility of MPs on all sides to Johnson’s statement in the House of Commons, and what the report’s findings mean for the Prime Minister’s hopes of survival.





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Hi, I'm Anouche. I'm Stephen. And now we're recording an emergency

1:26.7

podcast in reaction to the Sugree update and Boris Johnson's response.

1:39.6

So we've finally had something from Sugree. It's an update on her inquiry into all the

1:46.7

gatherings that have been taking place at number 10. We thought that it might be a bit of a damp

1:51.3

squib and just a completely filleted version of the full report, and it is a completely

1:56.6

filleted version, but it's still pretty damning in what it says. And I think that the main thing

2:01.3

that proves that is that she confirms that 12 of the gatherings that we've been reading about

2:07.6

in the press over the past few weeks are being investigated by the Metropolitan Police. So that

2:12.1

means they meet that pretty high bar for potential criminal behaviour. And the Prime Minister was

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