Boris Johnson braced for perilous 48 hours with release of Sue Gray’s report

Boris Johnson is braced for the most perilous 48 hours of his premiership, with exasperated Conservative MPs due to see an official report into Downing Street parties that has nowThe Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, announced on Tuesday that her officers are investigating allegations of law-breaking at the heart of government on the basis of evidence unearthed during an inquiry by the senior civil servant Sue Gray.

A senior government source cautioned it was unlikely to be published in full, saying: “You don’t need to be a lawyer to realise that if there’s an ongoing police investigation, there are constraints on what you can publish.” Asked why cabinet ministers were not told, the prime minister’s spokesperson said: “From what I understand it’s important not to pre-empt a police statement on this sort of issue at any point.”

A former cabinet minister suggested Brady may already have received 40 letters. The threshold for triggering a confidence vote is 54. If it is reached, a vote would be held within days, and if Johnson lost it, his premiership would effectively be over. At cabinet, Johnson hailed the benefits of Brexit and urged his colleagues to be “bold” and “go further and faster in driving forward the government’s reform agenda”.

On a day of twists and turns at Westminster, it initially appeared the Met’s inquiry would delay publication of Gray’s report.

He need to go ….

How many more centuries will it take us common folk to realise that what makes the ruling classes special is that they don't believe the rules apply to them?

Gone, going, going.

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