The hotly anticipated report into apparent violations of lockdown measures by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has found that there were “serious failures” of judgment and leadership in hosting events in Number 10 Downing Street during the pandemic.
The initial report, which has been curtailed amid an ongoing police investigation launched by Met Police Chief Cressida Dick, was published on Monday afternoon by civil servant Sue Gray, who admits that she is “extremely limited” in what she can reveal about the alleged lockdown violations because of the police investigation.
The government has been accused of breaching the very lockdown restrictions it expected the nation to abide by, through hosting several boozy parties in the Prime Minister’s residence at Number 10 Downing Street. The government has maintained that the parties were mostly “work-related”…