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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Cindy U.

I'm joined by James Syslith and Katie Boss.

So today the Metropolitan Police has given a new announcement.

Katie, tell us all about it.

So we're almost back to where we were just after the police announced

that they were going to investigate eight of the Down Street parties.

Ultimately, the Met Police have come out today and said that they have asked for very

limited details to be made of the parties they're investigating.

They're fine with the Sue Gro's report going out, but when it comes to what I think most

of us would say are the interesting bits, so the parties where there's clearly the most serious alleged wrongdoing,

hence by they are being investigated by the police.

They are asking for minimal reference to remain in the Cabinet Office report.

And they say they do not ask for any limitations on other events in the report

or for the report to be delayed.

Now, I think this helps explain why we've been in this holding pattern for most of the week,

which was initially after the police that they were going to investigate.

The expectation was the report would not come out for months because it would have to come out after the police investigation.

Then we heard the Met didn't mind the report coming out, but yet we've had

that delay of several days as government lawyers and others have looked over this. I think it puts

the government in a really difficult position. If you publish the report with minimal reference to

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