The Metropolitan Police has instructed Sue Grey to make “minimal reference” to probably lawbreaking No 10 events in her report, the pressure has confirmed.
In an announcement launched on Friday morning the Met mentioned that “for the occasions the Met is investigating, we requested for minimal reference to be made within the Cupboard Workplace report”.
It comes after an surprising delay to the discharge of the much-awaited inner probe into occasions at Downing Avenue, reportedly because of a “authorized scrubbing” course of.
Scotland Yard, which is operating a parallel legal investigation into a few of the extra probably egregious occasions, added that it “didn’t ask for limitation on different occasions within the report, or for the report back to be delayed, however now we have had ongoing contact with the Cupboard Workplace, together with on the content material of the report”.
The assertion mentioned the requests for some particulars to be omitted had been “to keep away from prejudice to our investigation”.
Boris Johnson continues to anxiously await Ms Grey’s report, which might set off a vote of no confidence in his management by Conservative MPs angered over alleged breaches of lockdown guidelines.
However MPs ready for the report’s publication earlier than launching a bid to take away the PM could have their plan derailed if it emerges with its most probably damaging findings eliminated.
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