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Coffee House Shots

What does the Gray report mean for Boris?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The long anticipated Sue Gray report was finally published today albeit lacking significant chucks of details. Following the report Boris Johnson made a statement in the Commons addressing Partygate.

Though he apologised at the beginning, his tone did not seem particularly apologetic which clearly riled a number of MPs across party lines.

'The discomfort among the Tory benches today was striking'- James Forsyth

But what will be the aftermath of the debate? And can Boris Johnson still come back from this?

Listen to the full discussion on Sue Gray's report as Katy Balls speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:16.5

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots and Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Bawes and I'm joined by James Forsythe and Isabel Hardman.

0:24.4

And today we have finally had the Sue Gray report or at least a version of the Sue Gray report, an update as her team put it.

0:32.9

And we have also heard from Boris Johnson in the chamber. I think before we get to what's been a very

0:38.4

uncomfortable session for Boris Johnson, Isabel, could you just explain what the Sue Gray summary

0:43.3

actually says? Yes, so she says that because of the police investigation, she can't give

0:49.8

the full and meaningful report. So this is, as you say, an update with some serious learning

0:57.2

that the government can already do and doesn't have to wait for the outcome of the police

1:01.1

investigation. And that includes her very sort of grim and unimpressed conclusions about

1:08.4

the way in which the gatherings in Downing Street fell short of

1:12.6

the standards that were expected of it and of the public in general during lockdown.

1:19.1

It includes recommendations on changing the way in which Downing Street is run, saying that

1:24.3

there's too much responsibility placed on one official at the moment.

1:29.8

It gives a list of the gatherings that the police aren't investigating and also lists how

1:35.9

many gatherings there are that the police are investigating, which I think is 12 gatherings.

1:41.2

And it also covers how much evidence it has been taking in so the inquiry is interviewed

1:47.4

more than 70 people some more than once it's been looking at exit and entry logs on buildings

1:53.8

it's taken photographs and we've since had confirmed that around 300 photographs have been

2:00.1

handed over to the police.

2:02.9

So it still has quite a lot in it,

2:05.5

despite it being only 12 pages and two of those pages being blank.

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