Have you noticed how this is sinking under the media radar now? Boris has gotten away with it again.
AFAIK, Cressida Dick is sitting on it … 
Boris Johnson is coming under fresh pressure as three Tory MPs join efforts to oust him as prime minister.
Ex-minister Tobias Ellwood said he had submitted a letter of no confidence in the PM earlier, amid the ongoing row over lockdown parties in No 10.
He has now been joined by backbenchers Anthony Mangnall and Sir Gary Streeter in calling for a vote on his future.
The BBC is aware of 17 Tory MPs who have submitted letters of no confidence.
It’s probably too soon for most Tory MPs to make a move … 
PM now linked to SIX parties
Which Number 10 parties are being probed by the Metropolitan Police and which are not?
Below is a breakdown of which events are now subject to a criminal investigation and which have been deemed not to meet that threshold.The gatherings which ARE being probed by the police
May 20, 2020: BYOB garden party
June 18, 2020: Cabinet Office gathering
June 19, 2020: Birthday party for the PM
November 13, 2020: Leaving party for senior aide
November 13, 2020: Johnsons’ flat party
December 17, 2020: Cabinet Office ‘Christmas party’
December 17, 2020: Leaving drinks for former Covid Taskforce head
December 17, 2020: Number 10 leaving do
December 18, 2020: Christmas party at Downing Street
January 14, 2021: Number 10 leaving do for two staff members
April 16, 2021: Drinks and dancing the night before the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral
The four alleged parties which ARE NOT being investigated by the police
May 15, 2020: Downing Street ‘cheese and wine’ party
November 27, 2020: Second staff leaving do
December 10, 2020: Department for Education party
December 15, 2020: Downing Street quiz
Boris Johnson was today dragged further into the Partygate scandal after it was claimed he was seen arriving at the ‘Winner Takes It All’ Abba party thrown in his Downing Street flat to celebrate the fall of Dominic Cummings.
A witness is said to have told Sue Gray that the Prime Minister went upstairs towards the ‘victory party’ held by Carrie Johnson and her friends on the night of November 13, 2020, after Mr Cummings had left No 10 with his belongings in a box.
And to add to his woes, it has emerged he also attended a leaving party in No 10 when the Prosecco flowed while country was in the midst of the strict post-Christmas lockdown.
The Prime Minister is said to have given a short speech at the boozy bash on January 14, 2021 - now the sixth apparently illegal gathering being probed by the police that the Prime Minister is linked to.
Another leaving party was held on December 17, 2020, described in Sue Gray’s partygate report as a ‘gathering in No 10 Downing Street on the departure of a No 10 official’.
The Telegraph reported the official was Captain Steve Higham, then a private secretary to the PM advising on defence and national security.
Johnson attended the party and gave a speech, it is understood, but he left after a few minutes.
The parties were listed in Ms Gray’s report released on Monday - but the details have only emerged today in The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.
How many more … 
Sue Gray was forced to delay the publication of her investigation into alleged parties held in Downing Street and Whitehall during England’s coronavirus lockdowns due to the Metropolitan Police commencing their own inquiry.
In an interim report published in January, the Cabinet Office official said there had been ‘failures of leadership and judgment’ in No 10 over the so-called partygate saga.
The Times, citing an official it described as being familiar with the contents of the complete report, said Ms Gray’s full findings were even more personally critical of the Prime Minister and could end his premiership.
According to the paper, the official said: ‘Sue’s report is excoriating. It will make things incredibly difficult for the Prime Minister. There’s an immense amount of pressure on her - her report could be enough to end him.’
No 10 declined to comment.
Will Sue Gray’s excoriation finally blow the gaff on the extent of Tory lockdown lawbreaking … 
It’s a waiting game …
Maybe … 
Hi
I think many underestimate Boris.
He does not conform to normal rules.
He will be have to be forced out and he will use every trick on the book, plus some he has invented himself, to stay in power.
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Indeed he will … for BJ self-preservation comes first, everything else is much further down the list of priorities.
Johnson really has to go. In fact sadly the whole corrupt government must go. My hope is that the May local elections prove to be such a disaster the 1922 committee will gamble on an early General Election and the Conservative party, at least this lot, will tank and be replaced in office even if it means a spell of Labour in power. NOTHING could be worse than this lot.
Sue Gray’s report into lockdown-busting Downing Street parties will expose “premeditation” by civil servants arranging bashes, it was claimed today. Claims that staff knew they were breaking the law are set to emerge, according to the Sunday Times.
The latest batch of Metropolitan Police Partygate questionnaires has been sent to suspects, relating to the leaving party of Boris Johnson ’s director of communications, Lee Cain.
No10 is braced for Mr Johnson to be slapped with more fixed penalty notices.
Insiders are said to believe the birthday party bash he has been sanctioned for is the least bad of the half dozen gatherings he attended which Met Police detectives are probing.
Only when all police investigations have finished will Ms Gray’s report be published. A senior official familiar with its contents said the findings would be “difficult for everyone”, according to The Sunday Times.
“The most shocking thing Sue’s report has uncovered is a series of emails which expose the extent to which the parties were premeditated and the rules were being willfully broken,” an official told the paper. "She is also concerned by the lack of contrition shown by those who have been found to have broken the rules.”
That’ll put the cat amongst the pigeons … 
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It rather depends on what her Report says and any contradictory findings by the Police.
The basis of our legal system is innocent until proven guilty.
It needs to stay that way.
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The expectation is that the senior civil servant will publish her report on Covid-rule breaking parties at No 10 next week - when Parliament is still sitting - and the prime minister will then give his promised statement in the Commons.
Downing Street officials haven’t yet seen the full report and have made no attempt to dilute it.
Insiders believe that, while it will be “damning for the civil service”, Ms Gray will not deliver a killer blow to the PM. Ms Gray’s assessment may be that there were trails of evidence to suggest he was badly advised, and not necessarily aware of what events he was stumbling into.
Ms Gray’s initial update, published in January, was filleted of the detail of any gatherings the police had decided to investigate. But that interim report gives strong clues about her likely final conclusions.
In it, she decried failures of leadership and judgement by different parts of No 10 and the Cabinet Office at different times. She is likely, now, to reveal details of events which the police either didn’t investigate - or didn’t issue fines for.
For example, we know Carrie Johnson didn’t get a Fixed Penalty Notice for an alleged event in Downing Street which Ms Gray is looking at - but this might nonetheless receive a poor verdict in the court of public opinion.
Ms Gray does not intend to name junior civil servants. But I’m told there has been a “lively debate” on which senior names will appear in her report. No official is under any obligation, even internally in government, to admit to receiving a fine. But if their names are associated in the Gray report with one of the eight events for which fines have been issued, then some fear they will face disciplinary action - hence attempts to keep names to a minimum.
Mr Johnson is now also facing an inquiry by the cross-party Privileges Committee over allegations that he mislead Parliament after initially maintaining all rules has been followed inside No 10.
The Gray report may provide ammo for that inquiry, though Conservative critics who have contemplated moving against the prime minister may well now wait until the committee reaches a conclusion.
So, even with the publication of the full Partygate report, the eventual fallout is not entirely clear. It’s something of a Gray area.
Will BJ escape … again … 
Labour has called on Boris Johnson to “urgently explain” why he met Sue Gray to discuss her long-awaited report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street.
The pair discussed where Ms Gray believed the Metropolitan Police were with the inquiry, and Whitehall’s understanding of where the police were on interviews, Sky News understands.
Further details of the meeting are sketchy, with confusion over whether the inclusion of pictures in the report was discussed and who initiated the meeting.
The revelation of an undisclosed meeting is likely to trigger surprise given the forthcoming report has repeatedly been described as independent.
However, all sides are likely to argue the meeting was above board given Mr Johnson commissioned the report.
Earlier in the process there were robust procedures to ensure Number 10 did not know about the contents of the interim report.
The meeting is understood to have taken place on a date before the Commons voted to refer Mr Johnson to the privileges committee which happened on 21 April.
The proof will be in the pudding … 
I just had to share this if only for the statement “Boris went to Eaton or better known as the Hogwarts for wankers”.
It has emerged the civil servant and Boris Johnson met several weeks ago - but there are conflicting accounts of what was discussed.
A spokesperson for the Sue Gray investigation has disputed a government source’s assertion the pair discussed including photographs in her report.
The BBC has now been told the discussion about photographs “did not happen”, although photos are likely to be included in the final report.
According to the senior government source, the pair discussed including photos in the report, and that Ms Gray initiated the meeting.
But it is now understood that while Ms Gray sent the calendar invite for the meeting, the original idea for it came from Downing St.
In a conversation with a senior official in No 10, it was suggested to Ms Gray that she might offer an update on her work to the prime minister. She accepted that idea and sent the invite to ensure an appointment was put in both their diaries.
Around 30 individuals, including the prime minister, have already been informed they are likely to be named by Ms Gray.
They have until Sunday evening to lodge any objections.
Suspicions are aroused when conflict is exposed …
I saw this on Twitter…don’t know who Tim Walker is, but this was taken from The Times newspaper
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That’s BJ for you … friends in high places …
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Why was Number 10 not fined £1400 as other places and people where?
Why does Dorris continually get away with lying?
Why is this supposedly Conservative government so awful?
Why don’t The Men in Grey Suits feel Dorris’s collar?
There may have been something rotten in the state of Denmark back in the day but my life, there’s something very rotten in the UK eminating from Westminster and has been for twenty years. It’s become very much worse since the present government took office. I believe the only hope is a General Strike which I would support wholeheartedly.
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