Sue Gray’s verdict: ‘Failures of leadership’
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🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:07.2 | Today, the questions remaining after Sue Gray's heavily edited report. |
| 0:23.6 | For weeks, whenever Boris Johnson was confronted with allegations of rule-breaking and |
| 0:28.6 | downing street, he repeated a simple mantra. |
| 0:32.0 | All of that, as you know, is the subject of a proper investigation by Sue Gray. |
| 0:37.7 | Please can I ask him to wait for the inquiry to conclude? |
| 0:41.2 | He must wait for the, we must wait for the outcome of the inquiry, |
| 0:45.5 | and I'm afraid he simply must wait. |
| 0:47.9 | I do a charter to wait, as I've said to the bench, |
| 0:51.1 | which I believe is continuing to ask a series of questions, |
| 0:54.4 | which he knows will be fully addressed by me and worry. |
| 0:58.6 | Yesterday, we didn't get Sue Gray's full report, |
| 1:01.9 | but an update on her investigation. |
| 1:06.4 | There was no naming of names or details of individual gatherings. |
| 1:10.6 | Instead, the thin 12-page document highlighted a drinking culture in downing street |
| 1:15.7 | and concluded that there were serious failures of leadership |
| 1:19.3 | that needed to be addressed immediately. |
| 1:21.2 | The most pressing allegations, however, |
| 1:24.0 | Gray reported would have to await the outcome of a police investigation. |
| 1:27.9 | For a prime minister desperate to move on, |
| 1:31.1 | it was a stay of political execution, but for how much longer? |
| 1:35.2 | From the Guardian, I'm not she, Nick Bar. |
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