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Boris Johnson has apologised after a version of the Sue Gray report criticised Downing Street for a "serious failure" over a number of gatherings during COVID restrictions ...   WESTMINSTER - A limited version of the Cabinet Office inquiry by Ms Gray has been made public, a document which is likely to prove pivotal in determining prime minister's future as he faces anger over the partygate scandal. Updates and reaction as version of Gray report is released - politics live Addressing MPs in the Commons, Mr Johnson said: "I want to say sorry - and I'm sorry for the things we simply didn't get right and also sorry for the way this matter has been handled. "It's no use saying this or that was within the rules and it's no use saying people were working hard. This pandemic was hard for everyone." Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: "There can be no doubt that the prime minister himself is now subject to criminal investigation.   To be update...

Boris Johnson has finally been handed the report into allegations of parties in No10 that could seal his fate as Prime Minister ... LONDON - The findings of the much-anticipated inquiry into claims of Covid rule-breaking at the heart of Government were delivered to Downing Street this morning. Senior civil servant Sue Gray, who has been looking into lockdown-breaking parties since before Christmas, handed over a watered-down version of her report after the Met Police threw her investigation into disarray last week.   To be update ...   [Article by Dan Falvey, The Express , 31 January 2022]   Follow all the update live HERE !    NOTE: Thanks to The Express for the content in this article that, however, does not represent the views of Vitalis Veritas Blog but belong exclusively to the opinion of the author which we would like to thanks for his valuable contribute.          

Boris Johnson lack of seriousness and professional behaviour and miss of honouring his duty as PM may have finally caught up to him ...   LONDON - We were in the white room in 10 Downing Street, and Boris Johnson was joking around with the photographer who was taking his portrait. “You’re like the kind-of taxidermist in The Godfather ,” Johnson said, laughing. “Do you remember? The funeral—the undertaker?” He then launched into his Don Corleone impression. “‘ Buona sera, buona sera, see what a massacre they’ve made of my son. ’ Do you remember? ‘ Use all your arts, use all your arts. ’” The scene was almost perfectly Johnsonian, capturing the British prime minister’s instinct to amuse and distract, to pull a veil of humour over anything remotely serious. Watching him can be like watching a child, in this instance a child shuffling uncomfortably having his picture taken, desperate to grin and ruffle his hair, to mock and undermine, to play up to the inherent absurdity of the situ...

  WESTMINSTER - We have learnt from the Observer that Tory MPs will be ready in sufficient numbers to force Boris Johnson out of Downing Street within weeks if he tries to dodge responsibility for rule-breaking parties at No 10.   To be continued ...    [Source: The Observer ]