Boris Johnson will publish a SECOND Sue Gray report on Downing Street parties after he faced outrage over a half-baked "update" put out by No10 today.
Downing Street tonight committed to publishing another "update" by the top civil servant once Scotland Yard finish a police investigation.
It is a U-turn after Downing Street spent hours today refusing to guarantee it would publish a second report at a later date.
In her report today, Sue Gray warned she has “extensive substantive factual information” on No10 parties after interviewing more than 70 people and checking e-mails, WhatsApps, texts, photographs, official records and entry and exit logs.
Police revealed Ms Gray had gathered, and given to them, "well over 500 pieces of paper, about a ream and a half, and over 300 photographs".
But the report was stripped of almost all details after the Met Police asked Ms Gray to make only "minimal reference" to the 12 gatherings it was probing.
Ms Gray conceded: "I am extremely limited in what I can say about those events. It is not possible at present to provide a meaningful report setting out and analysing the extensive factual information I have been able to gather."
Most of the information Sue Gray gathered will now be locked away for "storage and safekeeping”, “until such time as it may be required further”.
Furious Keir Starmer had said: “The Prime Minister must keep his promise to publish Sue Gray’s report in full when it is available.”
Tory MP Tobias Ellwood said: "If the PM fails to publish the report in full then he will no longer have my support."
Tonight a No10 spokesperson said: "Given the police have said they are investigating a number of events, it would not be appropriate to comment further while the Met’s investigation is ongoing.
“But, at the end of the process, the Prime Minister will ask Sue Gray to update her work in light of what is found. He will publish that update.
“However the Prime Minister is clear we must not judge an ongoing investigation and his focus now is on addressing the general findings.”
But the No10 statement is unlikely to satisfy all the Prime Minister's critics, as it still stops short of committing to publishing a "full report".
